A good direct life, with considerable on the Danish invasion and so, usable in connection with history classes in the upper grammar grades and high school. - Summary by American Library Association Booklist 1915
Chapters
1 The Boy Pilgrim 9 min 2 A Thousand Years Ago 9 min 3 King Ethelwulf's Pilgrimage 4 min 4 Prince Ethelbald's Revolt 9 min 5 'The Locusts of the Baltic' 10 min 6 Prince Alfred's Marriage 6 min 7 St Edmund King and Martyr: The Battle of Ashdown 12 min 8 Long Live the King! 11 min 9 A Great Naval Victory 14 min 10 Alfred's Adventures in Athelney 16 min 11 The Turn of the Tide 13 min 12 King Alfred's Laws 14 min 13 The Danes Again 11 min 14 King Alfred's Friends 11 min 15 Travellers' Tales 10 min 16 King Alfred's Monasteries 15 min 17 King Alfred's Books 17 min 18 How Alfred Spent his Time and Money 12 min 19 King Alfred's Children 13 min 20 Alfred's Last War 13 min 21 The Defeat of the Danes 11 min 22 The Death of the King 13 min 23 King Alfred's Millenary 14 min
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