This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1898 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London.
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A worthy tale,
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This review is from: Hereward the Wake, 'Last of the English' (Paperback)
My version of Hereward dates back to 1909. It is faded now and time tinged round the edges. The English too bears marks of time, structures that hearken back to Walter Scott, and early translations of Balzac and Dumas.Even so, Kingsley's style is clear and easy enough to read, and if it seems quaint, then it is a quaintness that helps move you back to this time of heroes. For Hereward is a worthy son of Arthur and Beowulf. And saga-like, Kingsley traces his life from rabble rouser, viking, warrior, to dead hero in true Victorian style. Hereward, although killed, was never tamed and romantically represents the indomitableness of the human spirit. In the BBC dramatization of Hereward with Colin Blakeny in the lead role, Hereward vanishes into the mists of Ely, pledging to return if needed, which adds a nice touch of mystery in Malory-like fashion. Kingsley however sees him off into his grave as though commissioning Burne-Jones to do a painting - one can almost hear the Victorian old dears weeping as they get to Hereward's epitath "Here lies the last of the English." They must of loved it. I certainly did. If you like historical fiction by Tim Severn, George MacDonald Fraser, Bernard Cornwall, or Julian Rathbone, you won't be disappointed. It is a worthy tale and faster paced than Tolkien. Would that Peter Jackson gave it sympathetic treatment on the screen.
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IN Kesteven of Lincolnshire, between the forest and the fen, lies the good market-town of Bourne, the birthplace, according to all tradition, of two great Englishmen; of Cecil Lord Burleigh, justly remembered throughout all time, and of Hereward the Wake, not unjustly, perhaps, long forgotten. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncle brand, magic armour, merry greenwood, great marquis, great countess, doughty deeds, lord abbot, thy horse, mighty fleet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Martin Lightfoot, King William, Gilbert of Ghent, Sir Robert, Sir Ascelin, Abbot Thorold, Golden Borough, Harold Hardraade, William of Normandy, Earl Godwin, Harold Godwinsson, Richard of Ely, Earl Warrenne, Ivo Taillebois, Count of Guisnes, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Archbishop Aldred, Countess Judith, Earl Waltheof, Edward the Confessor, Hugh of Evermue, Lady Torfrida, Robin Hood, Abbot Thurstan, Countess Gyda New!
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IN Kesteven of Lincolnshire, between the forest and the fen, lies the good market-town of Bourne, the birthplace, according to all tradition, of two great Englishmen; of Cecil Lord Burleigh, justly remembered throughout all time, and of Hereward the Wake, not unjustly, perhaps, long forgotten. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncle brand, magic armour, merry greenwood, great marquis, great countess, doughty deeds, lord abbot, thy horse, mighty fleet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Martin Lightfoot, King William, Gilbert of Ghent, Sir Robert, Sir Ascelin, Abbot Thorold, Golden Borough, Harold Hardraade, William of Normandy, Earl Godwin, Harold Godwinsson, Richard of Ely, Earl Warrenne, Ivo Taillebois, Count of Guisnes, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Archbishop Aldred, Countess Judith, Earl Waltheof, Edward the Confessor, Hugh of Evermue, Lady Torfrida, Robin Hood, Abbot Thurstan, Countess Gyda New!
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- Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Robin Hood (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Gilbert on page 301
- The Rise of the Dutch Republic (Volume One) by John Lothrop Motley on page 104
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