The last kingdom a novel
This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, w...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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c2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Cornwell, Bernard. Last kingdom ;
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| 100 | 1 | |a Cornwell, Bernard. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The last kingdom : |b a novel / |c Bernard Cornwell. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b HarperCollins Publishers, |c c2005. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 333 pages : |b map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a The Saxon tales ; |v book 1 | |
| 520 | 0 | |a This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred's kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father's land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. This thrilling adventure-based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell's ancestors-depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England. | |
| 500 | |a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x History |y Alfred, 871-899 |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Vikings |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 800 | 1 | |a Cornwell, Bernard. |t Last kingdom ; |v 1. | |
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