The White Company
In fourteenth-century England and France, a young man raised in a monastery joins a company of English archers and rides into the Hundred Years’ War, coming of age amid chivalry, battle, and adventure. Doyle, who considered it his finest work, brings the medieval world vividly to life with meticulous detail, colorful characters, and rousing action. Following the free companions under the noble knight Sir Nigel, The White Company is a stirring tale of honor, courage, and camaraderie in an age of arms. Rich in period atmosphere and boys’-own excitement, it stands as one of the great historical adventure novels from the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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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