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Sir Nigel
Sir Nigel
Sir Nigel
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Sir Nigel

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. “Sir Nigel” is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's 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.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Release dateJan 31, 2016
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medieval adventure about Nigel Loring's squire days is a portrait in black and white with shining knights in armor, damsels in distress and shameless villains. Doyle leaves the reader with no doubt about where his sympathies lie and often gives the plot away by his heavy use of props and the characters' lack of ambiguity. A book for boy scouts. Not without charms, but dated.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The prequel to The White Company; maybe not quite as good, but then White Company is one of the best historical novels I know. This is the youthful exploits of Nigel Loring, who appears as the older mentor of the hero in White Company. In White Company he can be faintly ridiculous at times, a nearsighted Don Quixote, but in this book he is the the young romantic hero.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is one of the historical novels which Conan Doyle regarded as the genre for which he wanted to be most remembered, the success of Sherlock Holmes notwithstanding. It is a beautifully written story of the young life of the (fictional) eponymous Medieval knight, whose later life had formed the subject of Doyle's earlier novel The White Company (which I have not read). I had read Sir Nigel over twenty years ago, but remembered nothing of it; this time it was (mostly, apart from some somewhat repetitive battle scenes) a joy to read, and from a modern reader's viewpoint, unintentionally quite funny in terms of some of the foolishly heroic actions young Nigel carries out to prove himself and satisfy the sense of honour that formed the basis of the rather bizarre belief system called chivalry, here in full swing during the early years of the Anglo-French conflict later called the Hundred Years War. The action of the story concludes with Nigel knighted on the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, after capturing the French King John. Good fun, if not taken too seriously.

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