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In the Days of Alfred the Great. (1900) by Eva March Tappan (Children's Classics)
Eva March Tappan
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-04-08
主題Fiction / General
ISBN15309468759781530946877
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d9DpjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Story of the life of Alfred the Great, how at twenty-two he inherited a land overrun by savage pirates, -a restless ignorant, defenseless land, and how he fought the Danes and restored the country to a condition of peace and safety. When he inherited his kingdom at twenty-two, the king was not safe in his palace, the priest in his church. There was little opportunity for agriculture; laws were not executed; schools had disappeared, the very wish to learn had disappeared; the whole land was rapidly sinking into ignorance and barbarism, and was exhausted by its sickening dread of the horrors that the next moment might brin