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The Last Kingdom
by Cornwell, Bernard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins Publishers [2005], 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], xii-xiii, [4], 4-333, [5] pp. Quarter black paper over orange paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a full-page map. The first book in the series concerning Uhtred, a warrior-noble who is caught between the warring Danes and Anglo-Saxons. The basis for the popular Netflix series. A Very Good+ book with a bit of wear to the tips of the boards; jacket is Near Fine with a few hints of edge wear.
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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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000010420
- Title
- The Last Kingdom
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers [2005]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
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