Fire from heaven
By: Mary Renault.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
Genres: Historical fiction.
First sentence: The child was wakened by the knotting of the snake's coils about his waist.
Notes: Based on the life of Alexander the Great.

Originally published, Harlow: Longman, 1970.