Fire From Heaven
by Renault, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Original, unclipped dust jacket. 375 pp. Map endpapers. Top edge publisher stain, dull. Worn edges with spine edge chips. Stamped with an ugly "H" on ffep and half-title page. Fire from Heaven begins with Alexander as a young child in the court of his father, Philip of Macedon, and closes with the immediate aftermath of his father's assassination at Aegae, the event which led Alexander to assume power. As a novel concerned with Alexander's youth, it does not deal with his conquest of the Persian Empire beyond foreshadowing. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
Fire From Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film Alexander.
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10214
- Title
- Fire From Heaven
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction - Greece, Historical Fiction Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great - Youth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General; Biographies & Autobiographies;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...