The White Company

The White Company: Sir Nigel | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Historical novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Hundred Years' War were a pleasant surprise.
The White Company stands between Ivanhoe with its romanticism and flourishing eloquence, and Don Quixote, with all the grotesque and sometimes outright comedy.
The outcome - really interesting story with lots of catchy characters and a historical insight.

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ladyonequestion

The White Company: Sir Nigel | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

so-so

Just didn't really float my boat right now, and it took me ages to finish. I don't think it's a bad book as such, it's a homage to the old medieval romances and is written partly in archaic language. Found it quite difficult to follow the plot as it was similar to the romance set up of a series of incidents. I suspect I would have loved it when I was a teenager obsessed with Arthurian myths or had I actually concentrated on it 😏

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ladyonequestion

The White Company: Sir Nigel | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My oldest library book now I've finished Hot Breath. Mimics the likes of Malory, but much more readable.

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The White Company: Sir Nigel | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“At the sound her face set her eyes sparkled, and she stood with flushed cheek and head thrown back—a woman's body, with a soul of fire.”
I was a bit apprehensive about this one, but it has been pretty decent so far. There‘s been one horrifying turn (but I liked how it was handled in the end) and a few cringey moments but it *is* historical fiction written by a bloke in 1891, and it has actually been a tad progressive in some paces (see comments)

Purrsistently “It was a terrible world thought he, and it was hard to know which were the most to be dreaded, the knaves or the men of the law.” 7y

Purrsistently ‘"Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it."‘ 7y

Purrsistently ‘‘”Are we not all from Adam's loins, all with flesh and blood, and with the same mouth that must needs have food and drink? Where all this difference then between the ermine cloak and the leathern tunic, if what they cover is the same?"‘ 7y

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Purrsistently “"our foeman is under the stole and the vestment as much as under the helmet and plate of proof. We have as much to fear from the tonsure as from the hauberk. Strike at the noble and the priest shrieks, strike at priest and the noble lays his hand upon glaive. They are twin thieves who live upon our labor."‘ 7y

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lyradora @Purrsistently have you read Doyle's Professor Challenger series? 7y

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lyradora @Purrsistently think the Professor Challenger tales as Doyle channeling Verne. 😊 7y

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The White Company: Sir Nigel | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle