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A Novel of Richard III
February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Featuring: Richard of Gloucester; Lady Anne Neville
944 pages
ISBN: 031237593X
EAN: 9780312375935
Paperback (reprint)
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AΒ 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, schemingΒ hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower---from his malignedΒ place in history with aΒ dazzling combination of research and storytelling.Β Born intoΒ the treacherous courts of fifteenth-centuryΒ 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.Β 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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