The White Company
$25.88
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
An epic, compelling, adventure-filled historical novel from the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his father’s will stipulated he travelled for a year before taking his vows. Setting off on his adventures, he finds himself part of the White Company - a group of mercenary archers en route to France.
The horror of fighting awaits him - but so does the promise o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784870164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784870161 |
| Author: | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Creates the pattern of innocent, chivalrous, justice-loving, public-spirited, imperial Englishmen
Creates the pattern of innocent, chivalrous, justice-loving, public-spirited, imperial Englishmen * Guardian *
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published ‘The Final Problem’ in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of ‘The Final Problem’ but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
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