The last of the wine

By Charlotte Mendelson, Mary Renault

Subjects: LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Friendship, fiction, Male friendship, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353967, Fiction, Greece Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., History, Greece, fiction, Men, LGBTQ historical fiction, Young men

Description: 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.