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The last kingdom
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0007149905
- ISBN 13
- 9780007149902
- Seller
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About This Item
HarperCollins. Good in Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0007149905 . An ex-school library hardback book with marks on the front endpapers where the labels have been removed, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is a little rubbed at the edges and has a 2 inch horizontal closed cut on the front foldover. xiv + 334 pages, map .
Synopsis
From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today," comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal that brings to center stage King Alfred the Great, one of the most crucial (but oft-forgotten) figures in English history. It is King Alfred and his heirs who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, with their backs against the wall, fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.Bernard Cornwell's epic novel opens in A.D. 866. Uhtred, a boy of ten and the son of a nobleman, is captured in the same battle that leaves his father dead. His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. As a young man expected to take part in raids and bloody massacres against the English, he grapples with divided loyalties -- between Ragnar, the warrior he loves like a father, and Alfred, whose piety and introspection leave him cold. It takes a terrible slaughter and the unexpected joys of marriage for Uhtred to discover his true allegiance -- and to rise to his greatest challenge.In Uhtred, Cornwell has created perhaps his richest and most complex protagonist, and through him, he has magnificently evoked an era steeped in dramatic pageantry and historical significance. For if King Alfred fails to defend his last kingdom, England will be overrun, and the entire course of history will change.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68002
- Title
- The last kingdom
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007149905
- ISBN 13
- 9780007149902
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0007149905, Anglo-saxon, Historical Fiction, Uhtred, Alfred the Great, Vikings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
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