Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Harold, Complete, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Harold, Complete The Last Of The Saxon Kings Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton Release Date: November 25, 2004 [EBook #7684] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAROLD, COMPLETE ***
Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger
HAROLD
by Edward Bulwer Lytton
DEDICATORY EPISTLE
TO THE RIGHT HON. C. T. D'EYNCOURT, M.P. I dedicate to you, my dear friend, a work, principally composed under your hospitable roof; and to the materials of which your library, rich in the authorities I most needed, largely contributed. The idea of founding an historical romance on an event so important and so
national as the Norman Invasion, I had long entertained, and the chronicles of that time had long been familiar to me. But it is an old habit of mine, to linger over the plan and subject of a work, for years, perhaps, before the work has, in truth, advanced a sentence; "busying myself," as old Burton saith, "with this playing labour—otiosaque diligentia ut vitarem torporen feriendi." The main consideration which long withheld me from the task, was in my sense of the ...