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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.
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Fiction, Greece Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., History, Male friendship, Men, Young men, Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353967, Fiction, historical, Greece, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, LGBTQ historical fiction, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Fiction, generalPlaces
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The last of the wine
2001, Vintage Books
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0375726810 9780375726811
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"When I was a young boy, if I was sick or in trouble, or had been beaten at school, I used to remember that on the day I was born my father had wanted to kill me."
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