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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients ...
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The Lost World. Signature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British doctor and author. [1] [2] He is well known because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote science fiction and historical stories. He became an agnostic by the time he left school.
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At the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves the Catholic abbey where he has been raised—intelligent, skilled and well liked, though sheltered and naive—and goes out to see the world, in accordance with the terms of his father's will. The same day, the abbot banishes John of Hordle for worldly behaviour: great appetite, teasing and fli...
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1. Alleyne Edricson: through the wishes of his father, he has been raised by monks of Beaulieu. Upon reaching the age of twenty he leaves the Abbey and goes into the world. During the next two years, Alleyne becomes a squire to Sir Nigel Loring, and travels to France to join the White Company, a band of archers. When Alleyne performs a great feat of valour, he himself becomes a knight. Upon returning to England, he weds Sir Nigel's daughter. 2. Sir Nigel Loring: based loosely on the real-life...
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1. Abbot Berghersh 2. Sir Oliver Buttesthorn 3. Simon Edricson, Socman of Minstead 4. Walter Ford, esquire 5. Goodwin Hawtayne 6. Sir Claude Latour 7. Lady Mary Loring 8. Black Simon of Norwich 9. Peter Terlake, esquire 10. John Tranter
Historical figures who appear as characters in the novel
1. James Audley 2. Bernard Brocas 3. Hugh Calveley 4. Henry II of Castile 5. Peter of Castile 6. John Chandos 7. Olivier de Clisson 8. Edward III of England 9. Edward the Black Prince 10. Thomas Felton 11. William Felton 12. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster 13. Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch 14. Bertrand du Guesclin 15. Robert Knolles 16. James IV of Majorca 17. Charles II of Navarre 18. Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester 19. Sir Simon de Burley While there was a real knight named S...
Conan Doyle had grown up with his mother telling him stories of chivalry, much of which fed into The White Company. He was also inspired by a visit he took in April 1889 to the New Forest, particularly to Castle Malwood in Lyndhurst. He wrote the entire novel in solitude in a small New Forest cottage, chiefly in an attempt to capture the history an...
Amory Blaine, the protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 novel This Side of Paradise, reads The White Companyearly in the book.Several of the characters in S. M. Stirling's Emberversenovels share names with characters from this book and are apparently descendants or reincarnations of the characters, and Stirling has acknow...Two minor character names appear in the American film A Knight's Tale(2001), specifically "Delves of Dodgington" (Delves of Doddington in the novel) and "Fowlehurst of Crewe" as fake names for the...Works related to The White Companyat WikisourceMedia related to The White Company (novel)at Wikimedia Commons- Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia is an online repository of all works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( fictions, essays, articles, poems, plays, lectures, letters, manuscripts ...), but also any materials related to him ( newspaper articles, interviews, photos, movies ...). His Life. His Works. Adaptations.
