The White Company (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1891
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: Fourteenth century
- Setting: England, France, and Spain
- Principal Characters: Alleyne Edricson, Samkin Aylward, Hordle John, Sir Nigel Loring, Lady Maude
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Courage, England or English people, Adventure, Spain or Spanish people, Battles, Knights or knighthood, Nobility, Fourteenth century, Chivalry
- Locales: France, Spain, England
The Story:
The Abbot of Beaulieu was a stern judge, and the charges against Hordle John, the novice, were very severe. John had drunk all the ale from the firkin when he had the first turn; John had held a monk’s head down over the beans in protest against poor fare; worst of all, John had carried a woman across a stream. When she smiled at him, he did not keep his eyes on the ground.
At the trial, huge John seemed out of place in a monastery. He cheerfully admitted the charges and did not even have the grace to be ashamed; but when the monks advanced to punish him, he...
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