The Last Kingdom (Book 1) First Print

Bernard Cornwell

ISBN 10: 0007149905 / ISBN 13: 9780007149902

Edité par HarperCollins, London, 2004

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Very Good condition used 2004 First Print Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket. Published by HarperCollins, London. Publication Print Number: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Author: Bernard Cornwell. ISBN: 9780007149902. Approx. dims: 240mm h x 165mm w x 34mm d. Intact clean condition unclipped pictorial dust jacket with slight creasing to edges, slight rubbing, slight signs of handling. Intact DJ spine slightly creased to top and bottom. Slight damp staining to the bottom of inside dust jacket covers. Dust Jacket over very good condition black boards with copper title lettering to spine. 333 clean, slightly tanned inside pages of English text, no inscriptions. Page ends slightly tanned with very slight foxing to vertical edges. Image shown is actual book for sale.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Last Kingdom (Book 1) First Print
• Éditeur: HarperCollins, London
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0007149905
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780007149902
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Historical Novels

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Synopsis

The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred.

Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault.

The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred's kingdom. Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. There, in the horror of the shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance.

The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell's books, is firmly based on true history. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love and desperate heroism. In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels.

À propos de l?auteur

Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.