The King Must Die/The Bull from the Sea

By Mary Renault

Book Overview

A hardcover omnibus edition of the two classic novels in which Mary Renault brilliantly recreated the legendary hero Theseus and his defeat of the Minotaur. CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. In her inventive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568658060
• ISBN13: 9781568658063
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My most reread historical fiction

Mary Renault's historical fiction books are classics. Good literature with a wonderful sense of metaphore. She stays very close to, then enhances, mythical "history." Character development is excellent and her style is descriptive, yet not with the overpowering self-indulgence of some modern authors that tends to get in the way of the story. Incidentally, the jacket art of this (these two)books suggests children's literature. It is not.