The Sunne In Splendour

Sharon Kay Penman

Original title: Sunne in Splendour

first published 1982 St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 paperback 944 pages

Author Sharon Kay Penman believes that the history written by the winners has been unfair King Richard III. Her novel portrays the Richard in a sympathetic light, casting aside the dark, sinister portrait painted by Shakespeare. Her afterword sheds some light into her reasoning, and summarizes her research. The novel begins with Richard's boyhood and holds accounts of the Wars of the Roses, his brother's reign, and h...

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Sunne in Splendour edition · 2014 · Pan Macmillan · 400 pages · 9781447247845
The Sunne In Splendour paperback · 2008 · St. Martin's Griffin · 944 pages · 9780312375935
Sunne in Splendour paperback · 1990 · Ballantine Books · 944 pages · 9780345363138
Sunne in Splendour hardcover · 1985 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517401620
The sunne in splendour edition · 1982 · Holt, Rinehart, and Winston · 936 pages

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