Mary Renault

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born

September 04, 1905 in The United Kingdom

died

December 13, 1983

gender

female

website

http://www.maryrenault.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, History, Gay & Lesbian

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Mary Renault
AKA Eileen Mary Challans

Born: 4-Sep-1905
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 13-Dec-1983
Location of death: Cape Town, South Africa

Father: Frank Challans (physician)
Mother: Clementine Newsome Baxter
Sister: Joyce
Girlfriend: Julie Mullard (life-long companion)

High School: Clifton Girls School, Bristol, England
University: BA, St. Hugh's College, Oxford University (1928)
Medical School: Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford University

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Books by Mary Renault

Average rating: 4.01 · 10258 ratings · 747 reviews · 21 distinct works

	The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2) 413 avg rating — 2011 ratings — published 1972 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The King Must Die 394 avg rating — 1923 ratings — published 1958 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1) 408 avg rating — 1332 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Last of the Wine 406 avg rating — 1008 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Bull from the Sea 397 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 1962 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Charioteer 407 avg rating — 792 ratings — published 1959 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Funeral Games (Alexander the Great, #3) 391 avg rating — 646 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Mask of Apollo 396 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 1966 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Praise Singer 388 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Nature of Alexander 405 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	My rating:

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Series by Mary Renault

Alexander the Great (3 books)
by Mary Renault

407 avg rating — 3985 ratings

Theseus (2 books)
by Mary Renault

395 avg rating — 2881 ratings

Quotes by Mary Renault

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

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“The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.”
― Mary Renault

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“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets s that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

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Object of Desire by William J. Mann

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Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life by Wendell Ricketts

8 votes, 229%

Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Joel Derfner

8 votes, 229%

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

5 votes, 143%

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

3 votes, 86%

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