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About This Book
" The White Company is a lively romance, and very good reading for boys and friends of old times and tall knights." -Andrew Lang
"Start a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty."-Michael Dirda
"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry
Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company (1891) is a vivid and action-packed historical adventure novel set against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War in 14th century Western Europe. With Doyle's impeccable eye for historical accuracy, this chivalric tale of a motley gang of Saxon knights en route to battle in France is a breathtaking window into the medieval world.
When Alleyne, a young Saxon noble-man who has been raised in a monastery comes of age, he is in accordance with his father's will, instructed to experience the outside world. As Alleyne travels through England he meets two men in search of adventure; Hordle John and Samkin Aylward. They convince the young lad to join them on their journey to the castle of the enigmatic knight Sir Nigel Loring. When they arrive they learn that Sir Nigel had been chosen to lead the White Company, the English stalwart archers, into battle against the French. Under the banner of Sir Nigel, our valiant heroes fall into increasingly thrilling adventures, including a swashbuckling episode with pirates on the high seas, chivalric battles, and epic feats as the White Company strive in their unswerving appetite for glory in battle. With The White Company readers of all ages will fall under the spell of one of the most thrilling and accurate historical adventures ever penned.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. How the Black Sheep Came Forth from the Fold
- II. How Alleyne Edricson Came Out into the World
- III. How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington
- IV. How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men
- V. How a Strange Company Gathered at the “Pied Merlin”
- VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed
- VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed Through the Woodlands
- VIII. The Three Friends
- IX. How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood
- X. How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow
- XI. How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock
- XII. How Alleyne Learned More Than He Could Teach
- XIII. How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars
- XIV. How Sir Nigel Sought for a Wayside Venture
- XV. How the Yellow Cog Sailed Forth From Lepe
- XVI. How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys
- XVII. How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde
- XVIII. How Sir Nigel Loring Put a Patch Upon His Eye
- XIX. How There Was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew’s
- XX. How Alleyne Won His Place in an Honorable Guild
- XXI. How Agostino Pisano Risked His Head
- XXII. How the Bowmen Held Wassail at the “Rose De Guienne”
- XXIII. How England Held the Lists at Bordeaux
- XXIV. How a Champion Came Forth From the East
- XXV. How Sir Nigel Wrote to Twynham Castle
- XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure
- XXVII. How Roger Club-foot Was Passed Into Paradise
- XVIII. How the Comrades Came Over the Marches of France
- XXIX. How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine
- XXX. How the Brushwood Men Came to the Chateau of Villefranche
- XXXI. How Five Men Held the Keep of Villefranche
- XXXII. How the Company Took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree
- XXXIII. How the Army Made the Passage of Roncesvalles
- XXXIV. How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna
- XXXV. How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle
- XXXVI. How Sir Nigel Took the Patch From His Eye
- XXXVII. How the White Company Came to Be Disbanded
- XXXVIII. Of the Home-Coming to Hampshire
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher