Sir Nigel ~ Paperback ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

This book by Arthur Conan Doyle is the background story to his earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edward III in the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. The character is loosely based on the historical knight Neil Loring. Chivalric deeds, bloody battles, bouts with ships, deeds of arms, chevauchees, robber barons and clever archers abound in this nice prequel to The White Company which follows the younger years of Sir Nigel, a minor noble of a house of great renown for the bravery of his knights, now down on its fortune after the premature death of its Lord (whose memory of heroic deeds is humorously capped by a I-slipped-on-a-bar-of soap kind of demise) and plagued by greedy men of the cloth brandishing injunctions like swords. The young and stalwart (and broke) squire Nigel dreams to live the life of the true knight, full of justice, honor, loyalty, courtesy and bravery. "Young and hot-headed with wild visions of dashing deeds and knight errantry," as skilled as candid, Nigel embarks in the adventure of his life and the reader follows him as he encounters his chivalrous warhorse, faces bureaucrat clergy, obstructs petty nobles and promises the love of his life to return after "worshipfully winning worship" following his King and Prince in France, "that land of chivalry and glory, the stage where name and fame were to be." From the English countryside to Poitiers, Doyle depicts the society of the time, its customs and particularly the flaws and virtues of its human types, the social inequality, with many parallels to the contemporary world. In the end, Sir Nigel returns to England where he weds Lady Mary. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Books - Available at Amazon's CreateSpace Store The White Company https: //www.createspace.com/6528004 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes https: //www.createspace.com/6498370 The Hound of the Baskervilles https: //www.createspace.com/6498594 The Sign of the Four https: //www.createspace.com/6499304 The Return of Sherlock Holmes https: //www.createspace.com/6500007 The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle https: //www.createspace.com/6499480 The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge https: //www.createspace.com/6500211 The Adventure of the Devil's Foot https: //www.createspace.com/6501272 A Study in Scarlet https: //www.createspace.com/6501461 Through the Magic Door https: //www.createspace.com/6502006 The Adventures of Gerard https: //www.createspace.com/6502339 Winner Classics An Iron Will & Ambition and Success by Orison Swett Marden (2 books in 1) https: //www.createspace.com/6394329 The Twelve Powers of Man by Charles Fillmore https: //www.createspace.com/6346276 Atom-Smashing Power of Mind by Charles Fillmore https: //www.createspace.com/6385553 Christian Healing: The Science of Being by Charles Fillmore https: //www.createspace.com/6387405 Teach Us to Pray by Charles Fillmore https: //www.createspace.com/6391417 The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One by Peter B Kyne https: //www.createspace.com/6338087 The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn https: //www.createspace.com/6333159 The Secret Door to Success by Florence Scovel Shinn https: //www.createspace.com/6341606"Author Biography Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle(22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine (1868-70). He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, including periods working in Aston (then a town in Warwickshire, now part of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire. Doyle struggled to find a publisher for his work. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle 25 ( 2500 today) for all rights to the story. The piece appeared one year later in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald. While living in Southsea, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. "