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 The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in Ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme. The book is...
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 The Boston Globe A master of wine -- at last
10/13/1993: 1,452 words, approx. 5 pages For three years, Bill Nesto's dream of becoming a certified master of wine was vanquished by test problems like this: "In the context of wine, briefly explain meta-tartaric acid." Nesto's wine-bibbing friend and study partner Sandy Block was also thwarted in his... summary from source:
The Spectator The last of the vintage wine
06/18/2005: 1,111 words, approx. 4 pages The last of the vintage wine QUICKSANDS: A MEMOIR by Sybille Bedford Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 370, ISBN 0241140374 £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 When Sybille Bedford was born, in Germany in 1911, it was into a world already vanishing: a...
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 Critical Essay by Landon C. Burns, Jr.
2,149 words, approx. 7 pages
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 of the past is vivid and exciting, for she has been able to make us believe in a world remote from ours, but one in which we recognize problems and people who reflect our own society. The Athens of Sokrates and Alkibiades comes alive for us because Miss Renault has made it consistent, colorful, and interesting. But unlike many historical novelists wh... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Dudley Fitts
920 words, approx. 3 pages
[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—is no less honorable and may offer even more in the way of inventive and persuasive entertainment. Mary Renault's evocations of the Greek past, starting with "The Last of the Wine" (1956), are admirable examples of this genre, perhaps the best we have…. [In "The King Must Die"] an act of schol... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Lionel Casson
546 words, approx. 2 pages
[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 the pathetic lot of Athenian women of good family, who could aspire to nothing higher in life than playing the role of housekeeper and brood mare. Writers too often have looked at this dazzling age through rose-colored glasses. Miss Renault sees the shadows as well as the highlights…. [She shows us] the people who once prided themselves o...
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