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The White Company (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts)

The White Company (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts)

by SirArthurConanDoyle (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

The White Company is a historical romance set in the Middle Ages, with perhaps a little more cynicism than usual in the Victorian genre. Conan Doyle subsequently wrote a prequel, Sir Nigel.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 338
 Publisher: CSP Classic Texts
Published: 01 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 1847189865
ISBN 13: 9781847189868

Author Bio
The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: `I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong.But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, and invention, indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time he was also very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame and notoriety for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer.