The Praise Singer - Paperback
by Mary Renault
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375714207ISBN-10:375714200UPC:9780375714207Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:HistoricalBook Topic:AncientSize:8.04 x 5.28 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCFKCD1PD7
The Praise Singer
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned Ionian singer. As they travel through 5th...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375714207ISBN-10:375714200UPC:9780375714207Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:HistoricalBook Topic:AncientSize:8.04 x 5.28 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCFKCD1PD7
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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