The Last Kingdom · Book 2
The Pale Horseman
- Published
- 3 October 2005
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780008139483
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Pale Horseman (2005, 400 pages) is the second novel in The Last Kingdom, following straight on from the opening book as Alfred the Great -- pious, sickly, the only English king with the will to hold the Danes back -- fights to keep his kingdom alive. Uhtred, torn between his Danish upbringing and his Saxon birthright, remains the series' oath-bound, reluctant narrator.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Pale Horseman is book 2 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Last Kingdom. It is followed by The Lords of the North. 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…
Editions
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