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.
The last of the wine.
389 pages
English language
Published 1956 by Pantheon.
Subjects
- Male friendship -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Fiction.
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