In the Days of Alfred the Great - Couverture souple

Tappan, Eva March

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1599150352 ISBN 13 : 9781599150352

Editeur : Yesterday's Classics, 2006

Synopsis

Story of the life of Alfred the Great, how at twenty-two he inherited a land overrun by savage pirates, -a restless ignorant, defenseless land, and how he fought the Danes and restored the country to a condition of peace and safety. When he inherited his kingdom at twenty-two, the king was not safe in his palace, the priest in his church. There was little opportunity for agriculture; laws were not executed; schools had disappeared, the very wish to learn had disappeared; the whole land was rapidly sinking into ignorance and barbarism, and was exhausted by its sickening dread of the horrors that the next moment might bring. To restore a land in such a condition to peace and quiet and safety and freedom from fear of harm, to establish churches and schools, to make just laws, and see to it that they were justly executed-a man might well have been proud to have succeeded in doing any one of these things; and for the man who brought about all these good results, no praise can be too high. To him who, in the midst of all the fighting and the weariness and the anxiety and the temptation and the responsibility, lived a calm, simple, unselfish, blameless life, to him of all the sovereigns of England who have served their country well, may the title, "The Great," most justly be given.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

SnARING in the special interest in Alfred the Great that is aroused by the near approach of the one thousandth anniversary of the last year of his life, I have found it a real pleasure to write this story of a U blameless king." However faulty it may be, it is, at least, the result of a thoughtful study of his character, and an earnest effort to . be as accurate as the scantiness of material and the thousand years' interval would permit. Little of the legendary, less of the miraculous, has obscured the fame of the real Alfred. His deeds are his own, - great in thilnselves, greater in that th~y ~re},h.e ~f#~~~~~i~n of the thought of a great .~i.ri~: ... Efen:· .. itl./'.~~~~fierce light which beats upon a thrm:te,';' it: is; httrd to find a flaw in : .. ,' ••• • l1li •• the character of' this '-ma,R' ,vho believed in God, .. . .. . ... . . . this king whQ: ~~r. t~~{l~ t~ do his best. WORCB8T&R, April, 1900. . • 11. ..• •..... EVA MARCH TAPPAN.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; I Alfred's Early Home , • • 1; IL Life on the Manor 18; III Alfred goes to London 37; IV Across the Continent , « 55 V "My Pope" 73; VI Ethelbald's Revolt 91; VXT Queen Judith 108; Vin Who shall be Kino? 126; IX After the Massacre 145; X On the Island of Thanet 164; XI "I must serve my people " 183; XII The Coming of the Sons of Lodbrog 202; XHL The Danes at Croyland 221; XIV The White Horse of Ashdown 241; XV Thor or Thealfi? 260; XVL In Time of Peace 279

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Story of the life of Alfred the Great, how at twenty-two he inherited a land overrun by savage pirates,-a restless ignorant, defenseless land, and how he fought the Danes and restored the country to a condition of peace and safety. When he inherited his kingdom at twenty-two, the king was not safe in his palace, the priest in his church. There was little opportunity for agriculture; laws were not executed; schools had disappeared, the very wish to learn had disappeared; the whole land was rapidly sinking into ignorance and barbarism, and was exhausted by its sickening dread of the horrors that the next moment might bring

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yesterday's Classics
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1599150352
• ISBN 13: 9781599150352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne