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

  • 001_TheLastKingdom_prologueA

    Duration: 22min
  • 002_TheLastKingdom_prologueB

    Duration: 23min
  • 003_TheLastKingdom_prologueC

    Duration: 17min
  • 004_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter1a

    Duration: 29min
  • 005_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter1b

    Duration: 29min
  • 006_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter1c

    Duration: 21min
  • 007_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter2a

    Duration: 21min
  • 008_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter2b

    Duration: 21min
  • 009_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter2c

    Duration: 18min
  • 010_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter3a

    Duration: 27min
  • 011_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter3b

    Duration: 28min
  • 012_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter3c

    Duration: 13min
  • 013_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter4a

    Duration: 27min
  • 014_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter4b

    Duration: 25min
  • 015_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter4c

    Duration: 18min
  • 016_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter5a

    Duration: 20min
  • 017_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter5b

    Duration: 23min
  • 018_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter5c

    Duration: 19min
  • 019_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter6a

    Duration: 26min
  • 020_TheLastKingdom_part1_chapter6b

    Duration: 25min
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