Alexander Vol 1.: Child of a Dream v. 1 (Alexander Trilogy) Book

A huge international bestseller Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Manfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in ancient Greece. Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty consuming desires an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy born to a great king Philip of Macedon - and his sensuous queen Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip and the wild passions of Olympias and how together they formed Alexander a young man of immense unfathomable potential capable of subjugating the known world to his power and thought of by his contemporaries as a god. Alexander's swift ascent to manhood as a protege of Aristotle and close friend of Ptolerny and Hephiaston and the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel. This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off and fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece revealed in vibrant tones and scholarly detail.