The Last Kingdom
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060530510
- ISBN 13
- 9780060530518
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins, 2005. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First Edition stated with full number line 10-1. The first book in the Saxon Chronicles series that spawned the guilty pleasure tv show of the same name. Brown boards with black spine and copper foil to type. Top corners dinged/split with ding to top of front board, some smudges/soiling to page ends and boards and scuffing to spine. Interior clean and binding solid. Jacket is unclipped with nicks to top corners and ight soiling to top inside of spine ends.
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
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB007322BC
- Title
- The Last Kingdom
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060530510
- ISBN 13
- 9780060530518
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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