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"The reader is left with the haunting sensation that perhaps the good a man does can live after him--especially in the hands of a dedicated historian." SAN DIEGO UNION In this stirring historical novel, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III from his villainous role in history as the hulking,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Richard III: younger brother of Edward IV. Richard is the main character of this novel.
- Anne Neville: Richard's cousin who became his wife.
- Edward IV: Richard's older brother and king.
- George: Brother of Richard and Edward who was untrustworthy.
- Francis: a friend of Richard III's from childhood.
- Warwick: Anne Neville's father; he was disappointed in Edward IV's rule and led an army against him.
- Harry of Lancaster: Last of the Lancastrian kings
- Johnny (John Neville): Brother of the Kingmaker, with ties to both sides
- Veronique: Anne Neville's friend and confidante
- Edmund: brother of Richard III, George, and Edward IV
- Marguerite D'anjou: French wife of King Henry, whom Edward IV had murdered. She was determined to make her son, another Edward, king of England.
- Rob Percy: Rob was a friend and ally of Richard III.
- Buckingham: Richard III's cousin who was not as trustworthy as Richard thought.
- Cecily: Mother of Edward IV, George of Clarence, Edmund, and Richard III. She was the aunt of Warwick.
- Elizabeth: Elizabeth Woodville was the wife of Edward IV. She conspired to keep Richard III from becoming her son's protector.
- Will Hastings: long time friend of Edward IV
- Isabel: Sister of Anne Neville
- Thomas Grey: Son of Elizabeth Woodville
- Stanley: Flipflop lord
- Charles: Husband of Margaret of York
- Alison: Wife of a Lancastrian noble
- John Howard: Duke of Norfolk
- Morton: Add a description of this character.
- Stillington: Bishop
- Margaret: Sister of Edward and Richard
- Anthony Woodville: Brother of Elizabeth
- Philippe
- Joan
- Kathryn
- Mary
Quotes edit
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“'Any time you try to walk around in somebody else's boots, you're apt to find them a poor fit.'”
John Neville
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I once came upon a definition of history as “the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods.”
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“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly,”
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Richard, second of that name to rule England since the Conquest. Richard, whose downfall had so shaped all their lives, for in his dethronement lay the seeds of thirty years of Yorkist-Lancastrian strife. His was a double tomb; he’d been buried with the woman who was his first wife, his only love. So grief-stricken had he been by her sudden death at twenty-eight that he’d ordered the palace in which she died razed to the ground. Within six years, he, too, was dead, starved to death at Pontefract Castle, and England had a new King; the Lancastrian dynasty had begun.
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“I truly believe the Almighty does not ask of us more than we have to give, that He does not abandon us in our time of need, and in His love we find the strength to endure, to accept what must be.
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The shadow-world of sleep recognized no borders. There the past and present were one country, shaped by memory and peopled by need.
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“He never thinks so fast as when he has the most to lose!”
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But she’d lost forever the ability to sympathize with the weaknesses of others, would never again find patience for those who broke under pressure.
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“Sage for fever, henbane for easing pain, horehound for lung sickness, betony for stomach cramps. Also bay, marjoram, mustard, and mandragora.
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But there be a great danger in letting your grieving go unchecked, a danger in that the dead can begin to seem more real than the living.”
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“Fiat justitia, ruat caelum; let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”
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Setting & Locations edit
England in the 1400s
- London
- York: Northern city, likes Richard
- Middleham: Richard's childhood home and haven
- France: Hereditary enemy of England
- Gloucester
- Northumberland
- Wales
- Tewkesbury
- Coventry
- Calais
- Exeter
- Ludlow
- Scotland
- Rotherham
- Nottingham
- Devon
- Windsor
- Sandal Castle
- Doncaster
- Towton
- Somerset
- Rutland
- Brittany
- Salisbury
- Northampton
- Bruges
- Barnet
- Tower
- Baynard
- Pontefract
- Amboise
- Olney
- Aldgate
- Southwark
- Leicester
- Suffolk
- Nevi Iles
- Westminster
- Brecknock
- Wakefield Bridge
- Fauconberg
- Berkhampsted
- Fotheringhay
- Berwick
- Shrewsbury
First Sentence edit
RICHARD did not became frightened until darkness began to settle over the woods.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Plantagenet Series. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sharon Kay Penman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 003061368X
Page Count: 936
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 003061368X
Page Count: 936
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- Dewey: 813.54
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