Falls the shadow / Sharon Kay Penman.
Record details
- ISBN: 0312382464 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780312382469 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780312382469
- ISBN: 0312382464
- Physical Description: 580 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2008]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal--an irresistible saga that brings the pages of history completely, provocatively, and magnificently alive. |
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Subject: | Great Britain > History > Henry III, 1216-1272 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Ridgefield Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ridgefield Library | F PENMAN WP 2 (Text) | 34010150976198 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Falls the Shadow : A Novel
Sharon Kay Penman was born in New York City on August 13, 1945. She received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law. She worked as a tax lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. She wrote The Sunne in Splendour, which chronicled the life of Richard III, while she was a student and a tax lawyer. After finishing the manuscript, her only copy was stolen from her car. She eventually rewrote the book and it was published in 1982. Her other works include Here Be Dragons, The Reckoning, When Christ and His Saints Slept, The Queen's Man, Cruel as the Grave, Dragon's Lair, Prince of Darkness, Lionheart and A King's Ransom. She won the 2001 Career Achievement Award for Historical Mysteries from Romantic Times. (Bowker Author Biography)