Un cavaliere e il suo re
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Nono secolo dopo Cristo. La terra degli Angli è dominata da un fragile regno di guerrieri sassoni retto dal pio re Alfredo. Uhtred, giovane erede legittimo del titolo di aldermanno di Bebbanburg, allevato dai danesi ma tornato tra le braccia della fede cristiana, ha combattuto duramente per il suo re. Ma la gloria, la famiglia, l'onore acquisiti non lo soddisfano. Tradimenti, intrighi di corte, meschinità minano il suo animo avventuroso e, forse stregato dalla bellezza della fattucchiera Iseult, vorrebbe persino tornare a battere i mari sulle lunghe navi danesi. Punito dal suo re, Uhtred si trova protagonista di un continuo sovvertimento di fronti, tra amici che diventano nemici e spietati rivali ancor più feroci. Di fronte a una nuova invasione danese però l'onore gli impone di tornare accanto a re Alfredo. Si scatena così, con il riapparire di amici e amori creduti morti, fosche leggende magiche e battaglie epiche, un conflitto finale per riconquistare il Wessex e porre le fondamenta per quel paese che un giorno sarà chiamato Inghilterra.
- ISBN: 8830423831
- Casa Editrice: Longanesi
- Pagine: 428
- Data di uscita: 13-09-2007
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I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/petrikleo Another great installment about loyalty, power, faith, friendship, and ambition. Putting into consideration that the first season of The Last Kingdom TV shows are adaptations of the first two books in the series, and now Leggi tutto
The Pale Horseman is every bit as good as the first book. This, again, feels like another chapter of a man’s life. Uhtred has grown up a little and is more resolute in his ambitions since we last saw him. He has fought in his first shield wall and has completed the transformation from boy to man: he Leggi tutto
“There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.” After finishing The Last Kingdom, I immediately dived into this second instalment. I could not wait to follow Leggi tutto
"The world began in chaos and it will end in chaos. The gods brought the world into existence, and they will end it when they fight amongst themselves, but in between the chaos of the world's birth and the chaos of the world's death is order, and order is made by oaths, and oaths bind us like the
The Pale Horseman is the excellent continuation of Uhtred of Bebbanburg's story. Set between 876 - 878 AD, Uhtred is now in his early 20's, having proven himself as a man and a warrior. He's fought in a shield wall, killed Ubba in one on one combat, and has sworn an oath to the Saxon king Alfred. Uh Leggi tutto
"For here starts war, carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl." A fragile peace still holds in the realms of Britain. After the forces of Wessex prevailed at Cynuit, the Danes have pulled back. King Alfred thinks himself safe, but in truth the last kingdom of the Saxons is in grave peril... Writing a Leggi tutto
This one took a lot longer to get going than book one but the second half and the ending were very good. The religious overtones to everything Alfred does makes me want to root for the Danes as does the corruption of many of the priests.
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