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Alfred the Great (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Thomas Hughes

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On Sale
Feb 7, 2012
Page Count
300 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411452107

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$1.99

Price

$2.99 CAD

Format

ebook (Digital original)

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ebook (Digital original) $1.99 $2.99 CAD

Alfred the Great (849-899), King of Wessex, defended his realm against the Vikings and so became “King of the Anglo-Saxons.” The author of Tom Brown’s School Days brings a novelist’s eye to this 1871 biography of the king he considered a model of what a ruler should be, in contrast to conquerors like Caesar or Napoleon.


Thomas Hughes

About the Author

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) was an English lawyer and author whose most-famous book, Tom Brown’s School Days, has become a classic work of young adult literature (Hughes based the character of Tom on his brother George). Hughes also wrote a number of other works, including biographies of David Livingstone and Alfred the Great.

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