The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1)

Paperback, 351 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2006 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-088718-6
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OCLC Number:
66902259

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Historical - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Action & Adventure
  • Sagas
  • Fiction / Historical
  • 849-899
  • Alfred,
  • Alfred, 871-899
  • Great Britain
  • History
  • King of England,
  • Vikings