Download or read book Hereward the Wake the last English king written by Charles Kingsley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of;the last of 'the English; as he flees his pursuers through the East Anglian marches. a true tale by a master story-teller, Volume 1
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, the last Anglo-Saxon holdout against the Normans. It was Kingsley's last historical novel, and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk-hero. Hereward is, in Kingsley's novel, the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and Lady Godiva. He is introduced as an eighteen-year-old "bully and the ruffian of the fens" who is outlawed by Edward the Confessor at the request of his father. He sets off to see the world in the company of his boyhood friend Martin Lightfoot. In one adventure he defeats a caged polar bear in single combat in the north of England. He brawls his way through Cornwall and eventually turns up at the court of Baldwin of Flanders. Once there, he demonstrates his prowess against Baldwin's knights, and wins the love of Torfrida whom he marries. Three years after the Norman Conquest, Hereward and Martin return to England and discover the brutality of the Norman regime. Hereward takes revenge on the Normans who killed his brother. At a drunken feast he kills fifteen of them, with the assistance of Martin Lightfoot. Hereward then musters a force of English rebels and takes up camp at Ely in the Fens. William of Normandy leads a host of mercenaries against Ely but they are repulsed with heavy losses when the English set fire to the surrounding reeds. In spite of this victory Hereward's resistance is worn down by the Norman invaders and the intrigues of the Countess Alftruda who separates the hero from Torfrida. Herward eventually swears loyalty to William, acknowledging that the Norman is indeed king of all England. Married to Alftruda, Lord of Bourne and in favor with the king, Hereward is still hated by the "French" (Norman) nobles, most of whom have lost kinsmen fighting against him, Finally Hereward's prime enemy, Ivo Taillebois, surprises him in his ancestral home, where fighting almost alone he is killed after a brutal struggle. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin.
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last historical novel penned by beloved British author Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake follows the story of an 11th-century resistance leader in the marshy region of eastern England who, according to legend, was the last holdout in the fight against the Norman invasion. Little known before he was featured as the star figure in Kingsley's novel, Hereward came to be regarded as an English folk hero.
Download or read book Hereward written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Last of the English written by Charles Kingsley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. It was Kingsley's last historical novel, and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk-hero.PlotHereward is, in Kingsley's novel, the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and Lady Godiva. He is introduced as an eighteen-year-old "bully and the ruffian of the fens" who is outlawed by Edward the Confessor at the request of his father. He sets off to see the world, considering such options as the Vikings of the northern seas, the Irish Danes or service with the Varangian Guard in Constantinople. He is accompanied by Martin Lightfoot, a devoted but eccentric servant.At an early stage in his journey Hereward defeats a caged polar bear in single combat in the north of England. He brawls his way through Cornwall and eventually arrives at the court of Baldwin of Flanders. Once there, he demonstrates his prowess against Baldwin's knights, and wins the love of Torfrida whom he marries. Three years after the Norman Conquest, Hereward returns to England and encounters the brutality of the new regime. Hereward takes revenge on the Normans who killed his brother. At a drunken feast he kills fifteen of them, with the assistance of Martin Lightfoot.Hereward then musters a force of English rebels and takes up camp at Ely in the Fens. William of Normandy leads a host of mercenaries against Ely but they are repulsed with heavy losses when the English set fire to the surrounding reeds. In spite of this victory Hereward's resistance is worn down by the Norman invaders and the intrigues of the Countess Alftruda who separates the hero from Torfrida. Hereward eventually swears loyalty to William, acknowledging that the Norman is indeed king of all England. Married to Alftruda, Lord of Bourne and in favor with the king, Hereward is still hated by the "French" (Norman) nobles, most of whom have lost kinsmen fighting against him, Finally Hereward's prime enemy, Ivo Taillebois, surprises him in his ancestral home, where fighting almost alone he is killed after a brutal struggle....Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. He was also the uncle of traveller and scientist Mary Kingsley.
Download or read book Hereward written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake Last of the English written by Charles Kingsley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake Last of the English written by Charles Kingsley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book The Wake written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.
Download or read book Hereward written by Peter Rex and published by Tempus Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction. Returning from Flanders to find his country taken over by the Normans, Hereward, embarked on a path of resistance. This work rescues Hereward from the myths associated with his life and career.
Download or read book Hereward the Wake Last of the English written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereward The Last of The English Volume 3 of 3 EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition written by Charles Kingsley and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1866 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Tom Licence and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.
