Author: Bernard Cornwell

El trono vacante – Bernard Cornwell

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«Mi nombre es Uhtred. Soy el hijo de Uhtred, quien fue hijo también de Uhtred». En el año 911 las fuerzas de Wessex y Mercia vuelven a estar unidas contra los daneses, pero la inestabilidad y la amenaza de las incursiones vikingas todavía resultan muy amenazadores sobre ambos reinos. Aethereld, señor de Mercia, ha muerto sin dejar heredero. Los sajones occidentales quieren que su rey suba al trono, pero Uhtred ha apoyado durante mucho...

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The pale horseman – Bernard Cornwell

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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. Now the Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex....

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The last kingdom – Bernard Cornwell

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Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. That war, with its massacres, defeats and betrayals, is the background to Uhtred’s childhood, a childhood which leaves him...

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The pagan lord – Bernard Cornwell

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Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred’s great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg....

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The empty throne – Bernard Cornwell

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The forces of Wessex and Mercia have united against the Danes, but instability and the threat of Viking raids still hang heavy over Britain’s kingdoms. For Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians, is dying, leaving no heir and the stage is set for rivals to fight for the throne. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Mercia’s greatest warrior, has always supported Athelflaed to be Mercia’s next ruler, but will the aristocracy ever accept a woman as their leader?...

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The burning land – Bernard Cornwell

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The last years of the old century were a dangerous time for England. Alfred of Wessex, a man of many victories, is in failing health, his successor is an untested youth and the Vikings, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, seize the opportunity to attack. Uhtred, Alfred’s unwilling warlord, leads the enemy into a trap and at Farnham inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings would ever suffer. But in...

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Sword song – Bernard Cornwell

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The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of ??Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord—warrior by instinct, Viking by nature—has finally settled down. He has land, a wife and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has...

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The lords of the north – Bernard Cornwell

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The year is 878, and as Lords of the North begins, the Saxons of Wessex, under King Alfred, have defeated the Danes to keep their kingdom free. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is disgusted by Alfred’s lack of generosity. Uhtred flees Wessex, going north to search for his stepsister, who was taken prisoner by Kjartan the Cruel, a Danish lord who lurks in...

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Les seigneurs du nord – Bernard Cornwell

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En cette année 878, le royaume d’Angleterre vibre à l’unisson de son roi : le Wessex s’est libéré du joug sanglant des Vikings. Le comte Uthred, vingt ans à peine, a bataillé ferme, et il espère que le mérite de son épée sera récompensé. Hélas, Alfred le Grand n’est pas réputé pour ses largesses… Uthred, jeune comte sans domaine et guerrier sans bannière, retourne alors dans sa région natale et dirige une troupe de rebelles...

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Le quatrieme cavalier – Bernard Cornwell

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Une forteresse humide, surplombant des marais brumeux : voilà à quoi se résume le royaume d’Angleterre en cette année 878. Le roi Alfred, sa suite, une étrange sorcière et quelques fidèles soldats se sont réfugiés là pour échapper aux Vikings qui contrôlent les routes et les mers. Le souverain assiégé croit encore à la possibilité de sauver son pays, mais a bien besoin d’un guerrier intrépide : il convoque le comte Uthred, vingt ans à peine....

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