An edition of The Persian Boy
(1972)
Persian Boy, The
by Mary Renault
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Historical novel set in the time of Alexander the Great.
This novel 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 was sold to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with the great general, sustaining Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts and two wives.
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Eunuchs, Fiction, Generals, History, Kings and rulers, Biographical fiction, Historischer Roman, Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353599, Kings, queens, rulers, Alexander, Fiction, general, Greece, fiction, LGBTQ historical fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, romance, historical, generalShowing 11 featured editions. View all 50 editions?
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"LEST ANYONE should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me."
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