The Persian boy
By: Mary Renault.
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Fiction.; Kings and rulers -- Fiction.; Generals -- Fiction.; Eunuchs -- Fiction.; Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
First sentence: Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me.