The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III
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ISBN: 031237593X / Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, January 2008
Departing from the traditional Shakespearian and Tudor historical portraits, a fictional account of the life and times of Richard III captures the pageantry, passion, intrigue, and tragedy of the War of the Roses in a saga that chronicles the love story of the last Plantagenet ruler of England and Anne Neville against a backdrop of royal family intrigue. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III---a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by historyIn this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III---vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower---from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling.Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning.This magnificent retelling of his life is ?lled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the ?fteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.
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