{"product_id":"thebull-from-the-sea","title":"The Bull From The Sea: Sequel To The King Must Die Vmc","description":"Mary Renault 1905-1983 Was Born In London And Educated At St Hughs, Oxford. She Trained As A Nurse At Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, Where She Met Her Lifelong Partner, Julie Mullard. Her First Novel, \u003ci\u003ePurposes Of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Was Published In\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e1937. In 1948, After \u003ci\u003eNorth Face\u003c\/i\u003e Won A Mgm Prize Worth $150,000, She And Mullard Emigrated To South Africa. There, Renault Was Able To Write Forthrightly About Homosexual Relationships For The First Time - In Her Masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Charioteer\u003c\/i\u003e 1953, And Then In Her First Historical Novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Of The Wine 1956\u003c\/i\u003e. Renault's Vivid Novels Set In The Ancient World Brought Her Worldwide Fame. In 2010 \u003ci\u003eFire From Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e Was Shortlisted For The Lost Booker Of 1970.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'mary Renault Is A Shining Light To Both Historical Novelists And Their Readers. She Does Not Pretend The Past Is Like The Present, Or That The People Of Ancient Greece Were Just Like Us. She Shows Us Their Strangeness; Discerning, Sure-Footed, Challenging Our Values, Piquing Our Curiosity, She Leads Us Through An Alien Landscape That Moves And Delights Us' Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'mary Renault's Portraits Of The Ancient World Are Fierce, Complex And Eloquent, Infused At Every Turn With Her Life-Long Passion For The Classics. Her Characters Live Vividly Both In Their Own Time, And In Ours' Madeline Miller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sequel To \u003ci\u003eThe King Must Die. The Bull From The Sea \u003c\/i\u003eContinues The Story Of The Hero Theseus After His Return From Crete.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving Freed The City Of Athens From The Onerous Tribute Demanded By The  Ruler Of Knossos - The Sacrifice Of Noble Youths And Maidens To The Appetite Of  The Labyrinth's Monster - Theseus Has Returned Home To Find His Father Dead And  Himself The New King. But His Adventures Have Only Just Begun: He Still Must  Confront The Amazons, Capture Their Queen, Hippolyta, And Face The Tragic  Results Of Phaedra's Jealous Rage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePiecing Together The Fragments Of Myth And Using Her Deep Understanding Of  The Cultures Reflected In These Legends, Mary Renault Has Constructed An  Enthralling Narrative Of A Time When Heroes Battled Monsters And Gods Strode The  Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'there's Much To Say About Her Interweaving Of Myth And History And, Just As Interestingly, There's Much To Wonder At In The Way She Fills In The Large Dark Spaces Where We Know Next To Nothing About The Times She Describes . . . An Important And Wonderful Writer . . . She Set A Course Into Serious-Minded, Psychologically Intense Historical Fiction That Today Seems More Important Than Ever' Sam Jordison, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Sequel To Mary Renault's Classic \u003ci\u003eThe King Must Die\u003c\/i\u003e, Which Continues The Story Of The Mythological Hero Theseus After His Return From Crete.Mary Renault Is A Shining Light To Both Historical Novelists And Their Readers. She Does Not Pretend The Past Is Like The Present, Or That The People Of Ancient Greece Were Just Like Us. She Shows Us Their Strangeness; Discerning, Sure-Footed, Challenging Our Values, Piquing Our Curiosity, She Leads Us Through An Alien Landscape That Moves And Delights Usmary Renault's Portraits Of The Ancient World Are Fierce, Complex And Eloquent, Infused At Every Turn With Her Life-Long Passion For The Classics. Her Characters Live Vividly Both In Their Own Time, And In Oursi Never Learned Latin Or Greek; I Wasn't Raised On The Classics, Even In Translation. All My Sense Of The Ancient World - Its Values, Its Style, The Scent Of Its Wars And Passions - Comes From Mary Renault. Her Theseus Novels Are Perhaps The Most Exciting Of Her Greek Fictions, And \u003ci\u003eThe Last Of The Wine\u003c\/i\u003e The Most Moving. I Think I Turned To Writing Historical Fiction Because Of Something I Learned From Renault: That It Lets You Shake Off The Mental Shackles Of Your Own Era, All The Categories And Labels, And Write Freely About What Really Matters To You","brand":"Crossword.in","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46738308333785,"sku":"BK0496983","price":594.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/3066\/9017\/files\/getimage_56c8f949-32f1-40af-9aae-4c9584e648f2.jpg?v=1751184229","url":"https:\/\/www.crossword.in\/products\/thebull-from-the-sea","provider":"Crossword.in ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}