Ebook {Epub PDF} The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman

For many years while she was a student and then a tax lawyer, Sharon Kay Penman () worked on a novel about the life of Richard III and The War of the Roses. After the original manuscript was stolen from her car, Penman rewrote the entire novel that would become The Sunne in bltadwin.ru by: 3.  · About the Author. For many years while she was a student and then a tax lawyer, Sharon Kay Penman () worked on a novel about the life of Richard III and The War of the Roses. After the original manuscript was stolen from her car, Penman rewrote the entire novel that would become The Sunne in bltadwin.ru: St. Martin's Publishing Group. The Sunne in Splendour. I was a college student when I happened upon the story of Richard III, and the more I learned, the more convinced I became that he’d been the victim of a great injustice, transformed by the Tudors into a soulless monster in order to justify Henry Tudor’s dubious claim to the throne. Angered by this blatant distortion of history, I began telling my friends how unfairly Richard Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

The Sunne in Splendour sweeps away the myths to tell how one of the great sovereigns of England was betrayed by his allies, and then by history. But it is also the story of a man and his fight to win the woman he loves Praise for Sharon Penman: 'The best kind of historical novel' Daily Telegraph. The Sunne in Splendor: A Novel of Richard III. 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, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the. 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, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower—-from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research.

J. Penman Stephanie Ling. Decades after having been written, Sunne in Splendour remains one of Sharon’s most beloved novels. When it came time to sort through Sharon’s files, we encountered many gems. Here are some pages from one of the earliest drafts of that book. See if you can spot any differences between these pages and the published work!. The Sunne in Splendour is a historical novel about life of Richard III written by Sharon Kay Penman. The story begins in with Richard as a young boy, and ends in with his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field. SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR--Warning: This is not Shakespeare's Richard III. In this novel, Richard is a victim of circumstance and man vilified by the Tudors, but here presented as a decent and normal man, a man of conscience. AND he is not a murderer. Yes, those princes did die, but not by Richard's hand.