The White Company
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The White Company

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Dec |Learn more

The White Company

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.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The White Company is both modern and readable.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. I. How the Black Sheep Came Forth from the Fold
  6. II. How Alleyne Edricson Came Out into the World
  7. III. How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington
  8. IV. How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men
  9. V. How a Strange Company Gathered at the “Pied Merlin”
  10. VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed
  11. VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed Through the Woodlands
  12. VIII. The Three Friends
  13. IX. How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood
  14. X. How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow
  15. XI. How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock
  16. XII. How Alleyne Learned More Than He Could Teach
  17. XIII. How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars
  18. XIV. How Sir Nigel Sought for a Wayside Venture
  19. XV. How the Yellow Cog Sailed Forth From Lepe
  20. XVI. How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys
  21. XVII. How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde
  22. XVIII. How Sir Nigel Loring Put a Patch Upon His Eye
  23. XIX. How There Was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew’s
  24. XX. How Alleyne Won His Place in an Honorable Guild
  25. XXI. How Agostino Pisano Risked His Head
  26. XXII. How the Bowmen Held Wassail at the “Rose De Guienne”
  27. XXIII. How England Held the Lists at Bordeaux
  28. XXIV. How a Champion Came Forth From the East
  29. XXV. How Sir Nigel Wrote to Twynham Castle
  30. XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure
  31. XXVII. How Roger Club-foot Was Passed Into Paradise
  32. XVIII. How the Comrades Came Over the Marches of France
  33. XXIX. How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine
  34. XXX. How the Brushwood Men Came to the Chateau of Villefranche
  35. XXXI. How Five Men Held the Keep of Villefranche
  36. XXXII. How the Company Took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree
  37. XXXIII. How the Army Made the Passage of Roncesvalles
  38. XXXIV. How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna
  39. XXXV. How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle
  40. XXXVI. How Sir Nigel Took the Patch From His Eye
  41. XXXVII. How the White Company Came to Be Disbanded
  42. XXXVIII. Of the Home-Coming to Hampshire
  43. A Note About the Author
  44. A Note from the Publisher