The Last Kingdom
- Author: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 13:29:15
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
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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