Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie's schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Laurie's life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience.
Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.
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Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
当你在钢筋水泥的建筑中冥视那些欢快跳跃的小动物们,我的内心只能不断告诫自己宽容是一种能力。然而空气中充满腐烂的绝望,不论悲伤还是快乐。我这个充满适应性的灵魂,为什么却没有勇气去照照镜子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
评分当你在钢筋水泥的建筑中冥视那些欢快跳跃的小动物们,我的内心只能不断告诫自己宽容是一种能力。然而空气中充满腐烂的绝望,不论悲伤还是快乐。我这个充满适应性的灵魂,为什么却没有勇气去照照镜子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
评分当你在钢筋水泥的建筑中冥视那些欢快跳跃的小动物们,我的内心只能不断告诫自己宽容是一种能力。然而空气中充满腐烂的绝望,不论悲伤还是快乐。我这个充满适应性的灵魂,为什么却没有勇气去照照镜子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
评分当你在钢筋水泥的建筑中冥视那些欢快跳跃的小动物们,我的内心只能不断告诫自己宽容是一种能力。然而空气中充满腐烂的绝望,不论悲伤还是快乐。我这个充满适应性的灵魂,为什么却没有勇气去照照镜子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
评分当你在钢筋水泥的建筑中冥视那些欢快跳跃的小动物们,我的内心只能不断告诫自己宽容是一种能力。然而空气中充满腐烂的绝望,不论悲伤还是快乐。我这个充满适应性的灵魂,为什么却没有勇气去照照镜子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
He had asked for nothing, expect to give everything. 天呐看到Ralph被如此对待,我真的痛入骨髓。Laurie真的应该认识一下Cliff和Maurice。
评分我是一只讨厌在没有法律保护我们这个群体的时候被给予太多关注的小弯仔
评分Laurie真是作啊,Ralph都快被他作死了。
评分Laurie真是作啊,Ralph都快被他作死了。
评分Laurie真是作啊,Ralph都快被他作死了。
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