The King Must Die by Mary Renault

The King Must Die

by Mary Renault

The Reprint Society, 1959, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to dust-jacket, small chips and tears to edges (see photographs)

"Mary Renault's long, strange and hypnotic novel creates so complete a world, so extraordinary a climate, that once you have read it the book takes hold of you forever.
The hero of the story is Theseus, narrating in the first person the story of his amazing youth: his fatherless childhood in Troizen; his voluntary journey to Crete as one of the fourteen young men and girls picked to fight in the royal bull-ring at Knossos; the destruction of the Labyrinth, Theseu's escape and his return home under the fatal black sail."