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The Sunne in Splendour - A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheminghunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his malignedplace in history with adazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born intothe treacherous courts of fifteenth-centuryEngland, 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 filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.


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⚡️Book Title : The Sunne in Splendour
⚡Book Author : Sharon Kay Penman
⚡Page : 936 pages
⚡Published January 14th 1990 by Ballantine Books (first published October 1982)

The Sunne in Splendour

A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheminghunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his malignedplace in history with adazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born intothe treacherous courts of fifteenth-centuryEngland, 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 filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.