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Burns, Landon C., Jr. "Men Are Only Men: The Novels of Mary Renault."

Critique 6 (1963-1964): 102-121. This essay discusses The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die, and The Bull from the Sea.

Commire, Anne, ed. Something about the Author. Vol. 23. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. Contains a briefer version of the Contemporary Authors article on Renault.

Dick, Bernard F. The Hellenism of Mary Renault. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Because of its publication date, this book does not discuss The Persian Boy, The Praise Singer, or Funeral Games; it, like Wolfe's book, does discuss all of Renault's earlier novels, both those set in contemporary England and those set in ancient Greece.

Gunton, Sharon R., ed. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 17. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. Quotes excerpts from reviews of Renault's novels by eminent critics such as Moses Hadas...
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