[bksvol-discuss] Submitted another Bernard Cornwell
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:33:06 -0500
Hi all,
The Pale Horseman, Book 2 in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series is now on the
Step one page.
It's been read through and I've removed the headers, protected the page
numbers and chapter titles. Lots of proper names with old English and Danish
spellings, but Google has been helpful.
[From the Book Jacket]
Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire,
sword, and treachery. He has to make a choice: whether to fight for the
Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who
dislikes him.
In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English kingdom. The rest have
fallen to the Danish Vikings, a story told in The Last Kingdom, the New York
Times bestselling novel in which Uhtred's tale began. Now the Vikings want
to finish England. They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to
conquer Wessex. A dispossessed young nobleman, married to a woman who hails
from Wessex, Uhtred has little love for either, though for King Alfred he
has none at all. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and
when the Vikings attack out of a wintry darkness to shatter the last English
kingdom, Uhtred finds himself at Alfred's side.
Bernard Cornwell's The Pale Horseman, like The Last Kingdom, is rooted in
the real history of Anglo- Saxon England. It tells the astonishing and true
story of how Alfred, forced to become a fugitive in a few square miles of
swampland, fights his enemies against overwhelming odds. The king is a pious
Christian, while Uhtred is a pagan. Alfred is a sickly scholar, while Uhtred
is an arrogant warrior. Yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead
them out of the marshes to the stark hilltop where the last remaining Saxon
army will fight for the very existence of England.
Happy validating...
Deborah
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