The Last Kingdom [Audiobook] download free by Bernard Cornwell
- Listen audiobook: The Last Kingdom
- Author: Bernard Cornwell
- Release date: 2005/3/9
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780007218011
- Rating: 7.17 of 10
- Votes: 896
- Review by: Harley Hickman
- Review rating: 8.31 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/22
- Duration: 4H19M31S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Musepack, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV (compression RAR, ZIP, TZ, CPIO, TAR.GZ)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M10S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The first book in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Fiction, English Language: Reading & Writing Skills
- Download servers: Google Drive, Mediafire, FreakShare, Drop.me, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, TZ, CPIO, TAR.GZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.24 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x22mm
- Weight: 250g
- Printed by: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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