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The White Company
de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good-
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Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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The White Company is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture on the Middle Ages in 1889. After extensive research, The White Company was published in serialized form in 1891 in Cornhill Magazine. Additionally, the book is considered a companion to Doyle's later work Sir Nigel, which explores the early campaigns of Sir Nigel Loring and Samkin Aylward.
The novel is relatively unknown today, though it was very popular up through the Second World War. In fact, Doyle himself regarded this and his other historical novels more highly than the Sherlock Holmes adventures for which he is mainly remembered.
The "White Company" of the title is a free company of archers, led by one of the main characters. The name is taken from a real-life 14th-century Italian mercenary company, led by John Hawkwood. (wikipedia.org)
Sinopsis
From the book:The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts - as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long? All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.Leonard's, they had all turned their steps home-wards
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- Librería
- Lemolo Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2192
- Título
- The White Company
- Autor
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ilustrador
- biographical, illustration & pictures of the setting of the story
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Former library book
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good-
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Intro by Donald J Harvey
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Dodd, Mead and Co
- Fecha de publicación
- 1962
- Páginas
- 363
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- classic, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, historical fiction, archers,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classic;
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