The White Company

by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Historical Novel · War and its Cost · Honour and Chivalry

Abstract

A historical adventure novel following young Alleyne Edricson as he leaves Beaulieu Abbey and joins Sir Nigel Loring’s free company of archers during Edward the Black Prince’s 1366-67 campaign in France and Spain, culminating in the Battle of Najera.

Capitoli / Chapters

• Chapter 1: HOW THE BLACK SHEEP CAME FORTH FROM THE FOLD
• Chapter 2: HOW ALLEYNE EDRICSON CAME OUT INTO THE WORLD
• Chapter 3: HOW HORDLE JOHN COZENED THE FULLER OF LYMINGTON
• Chapter 4: HOW THE BAILIFF OF SOUTHAMPTON SLEW THE TWO MASTERLESS MEN
• Chapter 5: HOW A STRANGE COMPANY GATHERED AT THE “PIED MERLIN.”
• Chapter 6: HOW SAMKIN AYLWARD WAGERED HIS FEATHER-BED
• Chapter 7: HOW THE THREE COMRADES JOURNEYED THROUGH THE WOODLANDS
• Chapter 8: THE THREE FRIENDS
• Chapter 9: HOW STRANGE THINGS BEFELL IN MINSTEAD WOOD
• Chapter 10: HOW HORDLE JOHN FOUND A MAN WHOM HE MIGHT FOLLOW
• Chapter 11: HOW A YOUNG SHEPHERD HAD A PERILOUS FLOCK
• Chapter 12: HOW ALLEYNE LEARNED MORE THAN HE COULD TEACH
• Chapter 13: HOW THE WHITE COMPANY SET FORTH TO THE WARS
• Chapter 14: HOW SIR NIGEL SOUGHT FOR A WAYSIDE VENTURE
• Chapter 15: HOW THE YELLOW COG SAILED FORTH FROM LEPE
• Chapter 16: HOW THE YELLOW COG FOUGHT THE TWO ROVER GALLEYS
• Chapter 17: HOW THE YELLOW COG CROSSED THE BAR OF GIRONDE
• Chapter 18: HOW SIR NIGEL LORING PUT A PATCH UPON HIS EYE
• Chapter 19: HOW THERE WAS STIR AT THE ABBEY OF ST. ANDREW’S
• Chapter 20: HOW ALLEYNE WON HIS PLACE IN AN HONORABLE GUILD
• Chapter 21: HOW AGOSTINO PISANO RISKED HIS HEAD
• Chapter 22: HOW THE BOWMEN HELD WASSAIL AT THE “ROSE DE GUIENNE.”
• Chapter 23: HOW ENGLAND HELD THE LISTS AT BORDEAUX
• Chapter 24: HOW A CHAMPION CAME FORTH FROM THE EAST
• Chapter 25: HOW SIR NIGEL WROTE TO TWYNHAM CASTLE
• Chapter 26: HOW THE THREE COMRADES GAINED A MIGHTY TREASURE
• Chapter 27: HOW ROGER CLUB-FOOT WAS PASSED INTO PARADISE
• Chapter 28: HOW THE COMRADES CAME OVER THE MARCHES OF FRANCE
• Chapter 29: HOW THE BLESSED HOUR OF SIGHT CAME TO THE LADY TIPHAINE
• Chapter 30: HOW THE BRUSHWOOD MEN CAME TO THE CHATEAU OF VILLEFRANCHE
• Chapter 31: HOW FIVE MEN HELD THE KEEP OF VILLEFRANCHE
• Chapter 32: HOW THE COMPANY TOOK COUNSEL ROUND THE FALLEN TREE
• Chapter 33: HOW THE ARMY MADE THE PASSAGE OF RONCESVALLES
• Chapter 34: HOW THE COMPANY MADE SPORT IN THE VALE OF PAMPELUNA
• Chapter 35: HOW SIR NIGEL HAWKED AT AN EAGLE
• Chapter 36: HOW SIR NIGEL TOOK THE PATCH FROM HIS EYE
• Chapter 37: HOW THE WHITE COMPANY CAME TO BE DISBANDED
• Chapter 38: OF THE HOME-COMING TO HAMPSHIRE
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 15

Readability (prose)-114.6 Flesch ease74 FK grade77.4 Fog14% complex180 words/sent

Connections

Forms & Genres: Historical Novel, Adventure Fiction Themes & Concepts: Honour, Masculinity and the Male Code, War and its Cost, Maturation and Growth, History Motifs: Journey, Swords and Weapons, Inn Tavern Historical References: Medieval England Settings: France, Spain, Rural England, Castle, Europe Archetypes: Hero, Quest Hero, Mentor Topoi: Quest, Open Road Homecoming