Sir Nigel
Set in the opening years of the Hundred Years’ War, Doyle’s historical romance follows young Nigel Loring, heir to a proud but impoverished family, as he sets out to make his name in the armies of Edward the Third. To win the hand of his beloved Mary, Nigel vows to perform three worthy deeds of arms, and his search for honor carries him from the Surrey countryside to the battlefields of France. A prequel to The White Company, the book gives free rein to Doyle’s love of chivalry, its codes and its cruelties alike, rendered in careful period detail. He rated his historical fiction above Sherlock Holmes, and this brisk, high-spirited tale shows why he cared for it so. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.
About the Author
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh into an Irish-Catholic family that was both artistically gifted and chronically unstable. His father was an alcoholic artist who eventually had to be institutionalized. His mother, by all accounts, was the steady center of his…
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