Mary Renault （1905——1983）出生于伦敦，从牛津大学圣休斯学院毕业后，用了三年学习护理，1939年出版第一部小说《爱的承诺》（Promise of Love），随后三部小说也是在护士生涯中写出的，多少都与医院生活有关。1948年，她移居南非，在当地首先写了《御者》（The Charioteer），是以二战为背景的男性之间的爱情故事，成为同性恋文学史上的里程碑。此后，她转向古希腊背景的历史小说写作，共写出八部大气磅礴、细节精确的作品，最著名的是亚历山大大帝三部曲：《天堂之火》（Fire from Heaven）、《波斯男孩》（The Persian Boy）及《葬礼竞技》（Funeral Games）。

“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”– The New York Times Book Review Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son’s loyalty, teaching Alexander politics ...(展开全部)

The opening volume in the Alexander the Great trilogy -- now back in print! Telling the story of the how the boy Alexander grows to become the man all would call Alexander the Great.

The story of young Alexander the Great.

“Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.”– The New York Times Book Review Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son’s loyalty, teaching Alexander politics ...(展开全部)

The story of young Alexander the Great.

The opening volume in the Alexander the Great trilogy -- now back in print! Telling the story of the how the boy Alexander grows to become the man all would call Alexander the Great.

fourteen critical essays.

Sacred Lessons from Heaven to Help Us Fulfill Our True Purpose, from the Bestselling Author of Saved by the Light In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was struck and killed by lightning. When he awoke in a morgue twenty-eight minutes later, everything was forever changed. Over the next twenty years, Brinkley had not one, but two more near-death experiences. Now, in Secrets from the...(展开全部)