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The King Must Die
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The King Must Die

novel by Renault
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  • Murasaki Shikibu
    novel
    / Historical

    …Fire (1960), and Mary Renault’s The King Must Die (1958) exemplify an important function of the fictional imagination—to interpret remote events in human and particular terms, to transform documentary fact, with the assistance of imaginative conjecture, into immediate sensuous and emotional experience.

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    …Fire (1960), and Mary Renault’s The King Must Die (1958) exemplify an important function of the fictional imagination—to interpret remote events in human and particular terms, to transform documentary fact, with the assistance of imaginative conjecture, into immediate sensuous and emotional experience.

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  • Theseus killing the Minotaur
    Minotaur

    …told in Mary Renault’s novel The King Must Die (1958).

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    …told in Mary Renault’s novel The King Must Die (1958).

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