From Bernard Cornwell, the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author whom the <em>Washington Post</em> calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today," comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal that brings to center stage King Alfred the Great, one of the most crucial (but oft-forgotten) figures in English history. It is King Alfred and his...
From Bernard Cornwell, the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author whom the <em>Washington Post</em> calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today," comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal that brings to center stage King Alfred the Great, one of the most crucial (but oft-forgotten) figures in English history. It is King Alfred and his heirs who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, with their backs against the wall, fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.</p>
Bernard Cornwell's epic novel opens in <small>A.D.</small> 866. Uhtred, a boy of ten and the son of a nobleman, is captured in the same battle that leaves his father dead. His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. As a young man expected to take part in raids and bloody massacres against the English, he grapples with divided loyalties -- between Ragnar, the warrior he loves like a father, and Alfred, whose piety and introspection leave him cold. It takes a terrible slaughter and the unexpected joys of marriage for Uhtred to discover his true allegiance -- and to rise to his greatest challenge.</p>
In Uhtred, Cornwell has created perhaps his richest and most complex protagonist, and through him, he has magnificently evoked an era steeped in dramatic pageantry and historical significance. For if King Alfred fails to defend his last kingdom, England will be overrun, and the entire course of history will change.</p>
She had been looking behind and I twisted in the saddle to see that one warrior had jumped over the wall, had fallen heavily, but was now running toward us. He was a big man, heavily bearded, and I thought I could never fight such a man, and then I saw the archers loose their arrows and they flecked the ground about the man who I now saw was Ealdwulf, the smith.
'Lord Uhtred!' Ealdwulf called. 'Lord Uhtred!' I turned the horse and went to him, shielding him from the arrows with my horse's bulk, but none of the arrows came close and I suspect, looking back on that distant day, that the bowmen were deliberately missing. (查看原文)
As well as pork and beef we planned to have herring, salmon, mutton, pike, freshly baked bread, cheese, ale, mead, and, best of all, the puddings that were made by stuffing sheep intestines with blood, offal, oats, horseradish, wild garlic, and juniper berries. I loved those puddings, and still do, all crisp on the outside, but bursting with warm blood when you bite into them. (查看原文)
2 有用 Ecthelion 2014-07-20 14:34:15
几乎没有糖衣，全是炮弹……铁血当中的温情因为难得一见而越发动人。电视剧组啊快去请锤哥来演两代Earl Ragnar吧！那既视感简直不能更强烈！再把RA请来染个金发去演青年/成年Uhtred！真这样的话你们拍多少我就看多少，有多少周边买多少周边！……
3 有用 灵感贪吃蛇 2015-12-12 04:12:06
原著稍微冗长了点，电视剧改编版本是很棒的。有声书的narrator挺不错的，但是因为模仿的是北欧口音，听起来挺费力的
0 有用 nion 2016-01-12 15:37:52
前半本太罗嗦，这样虐先祖的作者也是罕见......然而谁关心男主今天又怎么灾星高照，叫Ragnar的都可爱！有声书的朗读者口音有点萌。
0 有用 zhenmafan 2019-06-21 06:51:06
Seems a bit overrated...
0 有用 FluorineSpark 2016-12-05 09:53:22
朋友推荐的书：前半段实在太冗长，看不下去。。。。。但是看评论好像后半段好起来了，是不是应该再坚持一下呢。