The King Must Die; The Bull from the Sea: Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn

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 novels of ancient Greece, Mary Renault performs the alchemical feats of fashioning from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and of weaving a thrillingly plausible account of the events that inspired the fantastical tale of the Labyrinth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593535634
• ISBN13: 9780593535639
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.2"

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.