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by Charles Kingsley (Author) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (22 Oct 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 1402161840
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402161841
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 x 2.6 cm
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1898 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London.
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kingsley is a literary match for Shakespeare, 31 Jul 2008
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Kingsley has written a piece of historical literature that, if it had been written by William Shakespeare would have sold in its millions worldwide and be read in schools across the country. Staggeringly though it has become something of an obscure text, which is a shame because Kingsley has written a truly great story.

Based somewhat loosely on the real Hereward we are taken on a roller-coaster journey through his life. Outlawed at an early age, his probably fictional early exploits in the North of England and later Cornwall and Ireland before his actual move to Flanders where he met the love of his life Torfida and earned great honour in battle. How with his wife's tuition became a true chivalrous gentleman and a farther. His return to England and the vengeance he extracts from the Normans who had taken his families land. His heroic siege of the Isle of Ely and how he twice led a successful defence of the Isle from William's men. However the ride up is then followed by the plunge downhill, the inevitable fall of Ely, losing the love of his life Torfida and how broken he became William's man and started his unhappy marriage to Alftruda and his daughter ripped away from her grieving mother by her own consent (she had entered a convent and vowed to leave her life behind) and married off too to one of William's courtiers. His subsequent moral and bodily descent that eventually costs him his life.

A truly great, over romanticised and nostalgic look at the death of the old Anglo-Saxon way of life at the hands of he ruthless Norman invaders. Kingsley never lets any fact get in the way of a good story but who cares everyone is aware it is to a greater or lesser extent somewhat although not entirely fictitious; it is thrilling stuff nonetheless. Much better than Robin Hood, Hereward The Wake could be turned into a Hollywood blockbuster but they will probably just keep rehashing the Prince of Thieves story again and again.
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