The Brothers of Gwynedd · Book 1
Sunrise in the West
- Published
- 1 January 1974
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780747200147
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sunrise in the West (1974) opens Edith Pargeter's Brothers of Gwynedd, narrated by Samson, a fictional clerk in the household of the real thirteenth-century Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, and published under Pargeter's own name rather than her Ellis Peters pen name.
Its place in The Brothers of Gwynedd
Sunrise in the West is book 1 in the The Brothers of Gwynedd series. It is followed by The Dragon at Noonday. See the full The Brothers of Gwynedd reading order.
Edith Pargeter's second major historical quartet, written under her own name rather than her Ellis Peters pen name, dramatizes the real thirteenth-century struggle of the Welsh princes of Gwynedd to hold Wales independent against the expanding power of the English crown. Narrated by Samson, a fictional clerk and confidant in the household of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the four novels — Sunrise in the West (1974), The Dragon at Noonday (1975), The Hounds of Sunset (1976) and Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) — trace the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780747200147
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780747230038