Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three,leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives,distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781844089598Number of pages: 336Weight: 240 gDimensions: 197 x 127 x 21 mm
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Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world,drawing us into its strangeness,its violence and beauty...a literary conjuring trick...so convincing and passionately conjured The Times The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century...it represents the pinnacle of (Renault's) career...Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world,drawing us into its strangeness,its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands,the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured. - Antonia Senior The Times
Mary Renault
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Tom Holland is an award-winning British historian,broadcaster and author,best known for his popular history books such as Rubicon,Millennium,and Dominion.
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