Persian Boy : A Novel of Alexander the Great

a Virago Modern Classic

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Mary Renault: Persian Boy : A Novel of Alexander the Great (2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

496 pages

English language

Published April 9, 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-84408-958-1
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Historical novel set in the time of Alexander the Great.

This novel tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas, a eunoch who was sold to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with the great general, sustaining Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts and two wives.

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Subjects

  • Greece, fiction
  • Fiction, historical