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The Charioteer by Mary Renault
The Charioteer by Mary Renault












The Charioteer by Mary Renault

Gay men are discussing a blackmail case and conclude that the law means you mix with advanced psychopaths, have false sense of solidarity, the news would you’re your mother with a weak heart, there’s never been a census so you don’t know how many there are, anyone would think it was normal like whether you like your eggs scrambled or fried, if our fathers had been like us we wouldn’t have been born, suicide. There some stereotypes – a mother who married beneath her, a father died of alcoholism when his son was aged ten. I read bits on holiday and looked forward to returning to the hotel to continue nit. This novel was written in the 1950’s when homosexuality was a taboo subject. The charioteer has to keep peace between them and ensure that they don’t drag the chariot off-course. The soul in a metaphor, is a charioteer in charge of two horses, one beautiful and well-behaved, the other wild and wilful. Who to choose? Otherworldly Andrew or down-to-earth Ralph? Laurie’s old friend Ralph, from school days, whom Laurie had fallen in love with back then, coes to visit. Mary Renault The-Charioteer. 2021.07. Plot introduction edit The story is a retelling of the life of mythological hero Theseus after his return from the Minoan palace of Knossos. It continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Laurie is a wounded soldier recovering in hospital, who becomes infatuated with Andrew, a conscientious objector working as an orderly. The Bull from the Sea is the sequel to Mary Renault s The King Must Die. This is very different from her classical Greece books but appealed to our group because it was set in our city but in the time of the Second World War.














The Charioteer by Mary Renault