An edition of The Persian Boy
(1972)
The Persian boy
by Mary Renault
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Historical novel set in the time of Alexander the Great.
This novel tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas, a eunoch who was sold to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with the great general, sustaining Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts and two wives.
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Persian Boy
January 1982, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Reissue edition
0553225464 9780553225464
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"Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me."
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