by Bernard Cornwell · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007218011
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«The Last Kingdom» is the historical novel by Bernard Cornwell, published by HarperCollins in paperback (352 pages, in English).
In ninth-century England, Uhtred, a Saxon boy captured and raised by Vikings, grows up between two clashing cultures. While Alfred the Great tries to defend the last English kingdom from Danish invasions, Uhtred is torn between his Saxon origins and his Viking upbringing, in a story of battles, divided loyalties, and the clash between Christianity and paganism.
The work was originally published in 2004; this HarperCollins edition is from 2010. It is the first installment of the The Last Kingdom series, also known as The Saxon Stories.
For readers of historical fiction and military adventures who enjoy medieval sagas, battles, and characters with divided loyalties.
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
