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Hardcover:
9780394431956 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1958, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An adaptation of the legend of Theseus who masters the art of bull leaping and slays the Minotaur in the process of fulfilling his destiny
Paperback:
9780394751047 | Vintage Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An adaptation of the legend of Theseus who masters the art of bull leaping and slays the Minotaur in the process of fulfilling his destiny
9780553260656 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1984), cover price $4.95 | also contains Learning from the Past | About this edition: The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781590072165 | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, November 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A novelization tells the story of Theseus, the mythical boy hero of Athens who was condemned to die in the labyrinth of the Minotaur, but after meeting the beautiful Ariadne, learns how to escape the labyrinth and kills the beast.
9781558000834, titled "King Must Die" | Dove Entertainment Inc, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: One of the most enduringly popular historical novels of our time, the story of young Theseus is a spellbinding blend of myth and imagination set in ancient Greece.
Prebinding:
9781439513057 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Bringing Greek mythology to life this book and its sequel, The Bull from the Sea, tell of the amazing adventures of Theseus, famous for slaying the Minotaur, defeating the Amazons and rescuing Persephone from the underworld.
Paperback:
9780375726811 | 2 edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis compete in the palaestra, take part in the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and grow to manhood influenced by the friendship of Alkibiades and the wise guidance of Socrates.
9780394716534 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1975, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Alexias grows to manhood influenced by the friendship of Alkibiades and the wise guidance of Socrates
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9781435295773 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates.
Product Description: Alexander's beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle...read more
Hardcover:
9780394424927, titled "Fire from Heaven." | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1969, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This fictionalized biography concentrates on the first twenty years in the life of Alexander the Great
Paperback:
9780375726828 | 2 reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon.
9780394722917 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1977, cover price $14.00 | also contains Down Among the Dead Men | About this edition: During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon
Prebinding:
9781435296909 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Alexander's beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king.
Paperback:
9788483461877 | Poc tra edition (Debolsillo, March 30, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Una bellÃsima historia de amor entre tres hombres, ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Paperback:
9789685960427 | Debolsillo, February 28, 2006, cover price $18.95
Paperback:
9788497936927 | 2nd edition edition (Debolsillo, October 30, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: One of the best-know authors of historical novels 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 had earlier been sold to King Darius of Persia but found freedom with the great general, and who sustained Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts, and two wives.
Paperback:
9780099469414 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 6, 2004), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Set in Greece in the fourth century BC, 'The Mask of Apollo' is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who constantly carries a gold mask of Apollo.
9780394751054 | Vintage Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Nikeratos, an actor of ancient Greece, greatly admires and devotes himself to Dion, a student of Plato, who is determined to bring democracy to Syracuse
9780553242805 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1983), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Nikeratos, an actor of ancient Greece, greatly admires and devotes himself to Dion, a student of Plato, who is determined to bring democracy to Syracuse
Paperback:
9780375714214 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The lives of two nonconformist women on a London houseboat are disrupted when a doctor tries to win the love of both of the women, in a provocative romantic comedy and portrait of bohemian 1930s London.
Paperback:
9780375714184 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle and personal relationships, as he fall in love with a young conscientious objector and becomes involved with a circle of world-weary gay men.
Paperback:
9780375714207, titled "The Praise Singer" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Set in Greece in the fifth century B.
9780394751023, titled "The Praise Singer" | 1 edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Set in Greece in the sixth century B.
9780553244007 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, May 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | also contains Noah's Ark | About this edition: In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts.
Paperback:
9788435016841 | Poc edition (Edhasa, July 1, 2002), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Mary Renault (1905-1983) ha pasado a la historia como una de las helenistas y novelistas más importantes de todos los tiempos.
Hardcover:
9780394520681 | Pantheon Books, November 1, 1981, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: After the death of Alexander the Great, an extraordinary power struggle, involving intrigue and a series of murders, takes place among the various successors to his reign
Paperback:
9780375714191 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After the death of Alexander the Great, an extraordinary power struggle, involving intrigue and a series of murders, takes place among the various successors to his reign.
9781558171527 | Reissue edition (Pinnacle Books, June 1, 1988), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India.
Recreates the Greek myth concerning Theseus' love for Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, and his reign as King of Athens
Hardcover:
9780765807830 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, March 1, 2002), cover price $50.95
9781850891239 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, May 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Recreates the Greek myth concerning Theseus' love for Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, and his reign as King of Athens
Paperback:
9781412811941 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, January 30, 2002), cover price $41.95
9780375726804 | 2 edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A richly textured historical novel recreates the Greek myth concerning Theseus's love for Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, and his reign as king of Athens.
9780394715049 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1975, cover price $10.00 | also contains Threshold | About this edition: Recreates the Greek myth concerning Theseus' love for Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, and his reign as king of Athens
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781590072158 | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, November 1, 2003), cover price $18.00
9781558000933, titled "Bull from the Sea" | Dove Entertainment Inc, May 1, 1988, cover price $15.95
Paperback:
9780156167680, titled "The Charioteer" | Reprint edition (Harvest Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: After surviving the Dunkirk retreat a young homosexual critically examines his unorthodox life-style and personal relationships
9780553078947 | Bantam Books, May 1, 1974, cover price $1.75 | About this edition: After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle and personal relationships, as he falls in love with a young conscientious objector and becomes involved with a circle of world-weary gay men.
Hardcover:
9780850338874 | Phillimore, January 1, 1993, cover price $30.00
Hardcover:
9780850338379 | Phillimore, January 1, 1992, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Walmesley wrote this travellers' guide in 1821, at a time when, just after the Napoleonic Wars, the Channel Islands were becoming known as a quiet retreat for inexpensive retirement and a destination for educated tourists.
Hardcover:
9780884110729 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1990, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past.
9780892440818 | Amereon Ltd, August 1, 1981, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past.
Hardcover:
9780394481913, titled "The Persian Boy" | Pantheon Books, November 1, 1972, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A slave-boy in the household of Alexander the Great tells about the adventures of the Macedonian king during the last seven years of his life
Paperback:
9780394751016, titled "The Persian Boy" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A slave-boy in the household of Alexander the Great tells about the adventures of the Macedonian king during the last seven years of his life
9780553242942 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, March 1, 1984), cover price $4.50 | also contains Neurologic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
Hardcover:
9780884110736 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1987, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Return to Night
9780685661918 | Queens House, February 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: , vii, 356 pages
9780892440825 | Amereon Ltd, November 1, 1981, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9789684195769 | Grijalbo Mondadori, June 1, 1986, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The story of two lovers who battle for their lives and love against the pains and forces of fate
Paperback:
9780394733692 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The lives of two nonconformist women on a London houseboat are disrupted when a doctor tries to win the love of both of the women
After surviving the Dunkirk retreat a young homosexual critically examines his unorthodox life-style and personal relationships
Paperback:
9789684195783 | Grijalbo Mondadori, June 1, 1984, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: After surviving the Dunkirk retreat a young homosexual critically examines his unorthodox life-style and personal relationships
Hardcover:
9788435005074 | Lectorum Pubns, October 1, 1983, cover price $22.95
Paperback:
9780394738253 | Pantheon Books, December 1, 1979, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Combines contemporaneous accounts, critically studied legends, reproductions of pertinent artworks, and photographs to provide a full-scale, nonideological biography of the Macedonian conqueror and empire builder
Hardcover:
9780892440788 | Queens House, June 1, 1978, cover price $26.95
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