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THE PRAISE SINGER
by Renault, Mary
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Seller
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COSTA MESA, California, United States
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Synopsis
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 Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1522
- Title
- THE PRAISE SINGER
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine in Mylar Cover
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- 0-394-50273-6 HISTORICAL FICTION
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