Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great series Book 1)

Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great series Book 1)

New York Times Bestseller and Man Booker Prize Finalist: A novel of ancient Greece by the author Hilary Mantel calls â€œa shining light.â€

Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renaultâ€™s unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious sonâ€™s love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conquerorâ€™s two great bondsâ€”to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistionâ€”and of the army he commands when he is barely an adult.
Coming of age during the battles for southern Greece, Alexander the Great appears in all of his colorsâ€”as the man who first takes someoneâ€™s life at age twelve and who swiftly eliminates his rivals as soon as he comes to powerâ€”and emerges as a captivating, complex, larger-than-life figure.
Fire from Heaven is the first volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which continues with The Persian Boy and Funeral Games.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.

â€œMary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.â€ â€”Hilary Mantel
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-09-10
Format	Kindle eBook

Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great series Book 1)

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