num_pages: 13
description: From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today," comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal. In the ninth and tenth centuries, King Alfred and his heirs fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.In A.D. 866, Uhtred, a boy of ten and the son of a nobleman, is captured in the same battle that leaves his father dead. His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. As a young man expected to partake in raids and bloody massacres of the English, he grapples with divided loyalties, torn between Ragnar, the warrior he loves like a father, and Alfred, whose piety and introspection leave him cold. It takes a terrible slaughter and the unexpected joys of marriage for Uhtred to discover his true allegiance -- and to rise to his greatest challenge.Unabridged, performed by Tom Sellwood
language: English
title: The Last Kingdom
titlecomplete: The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
characters: Edmund the Martyr, Aethelwulf (King of Wessex), Bagsecg, Alfred the Great, Ivar the Boneless, Ubba Ragnarsson, Asser, Guthrum the Dane, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Odda, Ealdorman of Devon
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Fantasy, Adult, War, British Literature, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 96692
places: England
series: The Last Kingdom
publisher: Chivers Sound Library