The Last of the Wine - first US edition

by Mary Renault

The story of Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, who reaches manhood in the last phases of the Peloponnesian War and along with Lysis, is a student of Sokrates. Great figures of history such as Sokrates, Xenophon, Alkibiades, Plato, Kritias, and Phaedo; athletes compete in the Isthmian Games, a fleet sets out for a Sicilian invasion, and civil war rends families and cities apart. This story brilliantly portrays the immediacy of life against the backdrop of a crucial time in history. This is a classic Mary Renault work.

Book is red cloth with black-stamped image on front board and stamped black and white text on spine, and is a near fine copy of title, accompanied by a with very fine dust jacket, artwork by A.C. Simon.