389 pages
English language
Published 1956 by Pantheon.
The last of the wine.
by Mary Renault
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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. It was a bestseller within the gay community.
Subjects
- Male friendship -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Fiction.