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Автор: Bernard Cornwell
Издательство: HarperCollins
Серия: The Last Kingdom Series
Жанр произведения: Историческая литература
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isbn: 9780007338818
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      THE LAST KINGDOM

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      BERNARD CORNWELL

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       Copyright

      This novel is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2004

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2004

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover illustration © Lee Gibbons/Tin Moon – www.leegibbons.co.uk

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780008139476

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2009 ISBN: 9780007338818

      Version: 2019-06-12

       Dedication

      THE LAST KINGDOM

      is for Judy, with love

       Wyrd bið ful ãræd

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Map

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Part Two: THE LAST KINGDOM

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Part Three: THE SHIELD WALL

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Historical Note

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

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       PLACE NAMES

      The spelling of Place Names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whatever spelling is cited in the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, 871–899 AD, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I have preferred the modern England to Englaland and, instead of Norðhymbralond, have used Northumbria to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious:


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