The Last Kingdom

  • Author: Bernard Cornwell
  • Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 13:29:15
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Synopsis

This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex, Alfred's kingdom and the last territory in English hands, Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he has to decide which side he is on. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father's land, the magical fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea.

This thrilling adventure—based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell's ancestors, depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England altogether. This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

Chapters

  • 021_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter6c

    Duration: 28min
  • 022_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter7a

    Duration: 28min
  • 023_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter7b

    Duration: 19min
  • 024_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter7c

    Duration: 15min
  • 025_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter8a

    Duration: 29min
  • 026_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter8b

    Duration: 24min
  • 027_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter9a

    Duration: 25min
  • 028_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter9b

    Duration: 26min
  • 029_TheLastKingdom_part2_chapter9c

    Duration: 19min
  • 030_TheLastKingdom_part3_chapter10a

    Duration: 28min
  • 031_TheLastKingdom_part3_chapter10b

    Duration: 29min
  • 032_TheLastKingdom_part3_chapter11a

    Duration: 26min
  • 033_TheLastKingdom_part3_chapter11b

    Duration: 26min
  • 034_TheLastKingdom_part3_chapter11c

    Duration: 20min
  • sample-179

    Duration: 01min
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