Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last historical novel penned by beloved British author Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake follows the story of an 11th-century resistance leader in the marshy region of eastern England who, according to legend, was the last holdout in the fight against the Norman invasion. Little known before he was featured as the star figure in Kingsley's novel, Hereward came to be regarded as an English folk hero.