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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The White Company (1891) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Black Sheep Came forth from the Fold | 21:41 | |
| 2 | How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World | 13:09 | |
| 3 | How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington | 12:55 | |
| 4 | How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men | 27:36 | |
| 5 | How a Strange Company Gathered at the "Pied Merlin" | 27:27 | |
| 6 | How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed | 26:02 | |
| 7 | How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands | 24:33 | |
| 8 | The Three Friends | 21:53 | |
| 9 | How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood | 40:38 | |
| 10 | How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow | 44:16 | |
| 11 | How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock | 30:31 | |
| 12 | How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach | 23:03 | |
| 13 | How the White Company set forth to the Wars | 16:17 | |
| 14 | How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture | 23:18 | |
| 15 | How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe | 27:50 | |
| 16 | How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys | 18:00 | |
| 17 | How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde | 16:35 | |
| 18 | How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye | 23:08 | |
| 19 | How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's | 24:20 | |
| 20 | How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild | 20:23 | |
| 21 | How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head | 21:56 | |
| 22 | How the Bowmen held Wassail at the "Rose de Guienne" | 16:06 | |
| 23 | How England held the Lists at Bordeaux | 21:45 | |
| 24 | How a Champion came forth from the East | 20:40 | |
| 25 | How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle | 13:30 | |
| 26 | How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure | 29:26 | |
| 27 | How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise | 21:14 | |
| 28 | How the Comrades came over the Marches of France | 27:59 | |
| 29 | How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine | 25:05 | |
| 30 | How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche | 19:51 | |
| 31 | How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche | 23:02 | |
| 32 | How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree | 16:42 | |
| 33 | How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles | 19:03 | |
| 34 | How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna | 22:22 | |
| 35 | How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle | 29:09 | |
| 36 | How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye | 31:06 | |
| 37 | How the White Company came to be Disbanded | 21:11 | |
| 38 | Of the Home-coming to Hampshire | 20:10 |
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