Two volumes bound as one.
Series: Collection of British Authors Vol. 2787.

The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture on medieval times in 1889. After extensive research, The White Company was published in serialized form in 1891 in Cornhill Magazine.
Compared to 'Ivanhoe' by his publisher, James Payn of the Cornhill Magazine, Doyle later claimed that 'The White Company' was the novel he remembered most fondly, being among the best he wrote at the beginning of his literary career.

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