Mary Renault The Charioteer. Celebrated for its literary brilliance and sincere depiction of complex human emotions The Charioteer is a stirring and beautifully rendered portrayal of love. The Charioteer - Mary Renault 349 The Marlows - Antonia Forest 19 Return to Night - Mary Renault 16 Purposes of Love - Mary Renault 7 20th Century CE RPF 5 Maurice - E.
Celebrated for its literary brilliance and sincere depiction of complex human emotions The Charioteer is a stirring and beautifully rendered portrayal of love. 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 Vidals The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwoods Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature. The Charioteer is a long-overlooked classic of 20th century Gay literature.
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The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent - and positive - gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller - particularly within the gay community. World War 1939-1945 Conscientious objectors Veterans hospitals Gay men. The Charioteer is a war novel by Mary Renault first published in London in 1953. Considerably more than just a gay love story Renaults novel examines what it means to be completely honest and completely fair in even the most difficult of relationships at even the most difficult moments of lifeWritten with both on-the-surface as in the myth of the Charioteer and covert it is no accident that many of the characters are in some way physically damaged or that the story is set during Englands darkest hours of the war symbolism Renaults novel encourages the reader.
