La guardia blanca by Arthur Conan Doyle
"La guardia blanca" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical adventure novel published in 1891. Set during the Hundred Years' War in 1366-1367, it follows young Alleyne as he leaves his sheltered life at an abbey to experience the world. He joins the White Company, a band of mercenaries led by the valiant Sir Nigel Loring, embarking on a dangerous campaign in France and Spain. Along the way, Alleyne falls for Sir
Nigel's daughter Maude while facing battles, pirates, and sieges that will test his courage and transform him from naive youth to knight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 |
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| Translator | Iribas, Juan L. |
| Uniform Title | The white company. Spanish |
| Title |
La guardia blanca novela histórica escrita en inglés |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Company |
| Credits |
Produced by David Starner, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 59.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Knights and knighthood -- Fiction |
| Subject | Middle Ages -- Fiction |
| Subject | Archers -- Fiction |
| Subject | War stories |
| Subject | British -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 36453 |
| Release Date | Jun 17, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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