Critical Essay by Moses Hadas
Miss Renault's historical novels are excellent. They hold their own as artistically wrought and moving stories and they are rich in the adult entertainment which ...
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Critical Essay by Dudley Fitts
[The] less inhibited cousin [of the historical novel], the legendary romance—a freer form because it is by nature exempt from the restrictions of historical fact...
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Critical Essay by Landon C. Burns, Jr.
The Last of the Wine (1956) is an excellent historical novel by all the standards which we usually use to judge such work. Miss Renault's reconstruction ...
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Critical Essay by Lionel Casson
[In The Last of the Wine] Miss Renault gives us both sides of the coin, the very special and precious relationship that could exist between men who were lovers, and th...
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Critical Essay by Moses Hadas
