Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault [1977 PAPERBACK] • Vintage Books box whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers

whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother

criminally-minded peers

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Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault [1977 PAPERBACK] • Vintage Books box whose poverty-stricken childhood in AlgiersFire from Heaven by Mary Renault (Alexander the Great #1) VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1977] VINTAGE BOOKS First Vintage Books mass market printing. Book is in excellent condition. Like new and seemingly unread copy. ABOUT THE BOOK Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was