The Last Kingdom · Book 1
The Last Kingdom
- Published
- 4 October 2004
- Pages
- 474
- ISBN-13
- 9780008139476
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Kingdom (2004, 474 pages) opens Bernard Cornwell's account of the making of England, narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg -- a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by Vikings as a boy. It's set in 866, as Danish armies begin overrunning England one kingdom at a time, and launches the fifty-year fight, centred on Alfred the Great, that the whole thirteen-book series follows.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom is book 1 in the The Last Kingdom series. It is followed by The Pale Horseman. See the full The Last Kingdom reading order.
The Last Kingdom (published in the UK as The Saxon Stories, then The Warrior Chronicles) is Bernard Cornwell's account of the making of England, narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg — a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by Vikings as a boy, who grows up caught between two loyalties: the Danes who taught him to fight and love, and the Saxon kingdoms of his birth. It opens in 866, as Danish armies are overrunning England one kingdom at a time, and follows the fifty-year fight to stop them, centred on…
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