Sir Nigel [with Biographical Introduction]
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Dame History is so austere a lady that if one, has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with her, one should hasten to make amends by repentance and confession. Events have been transposed to the extent of some few months in this narrative in order to preserve the continuity and evenness of the story. I hope so small a divergence may seem a venial error after so many centuries. For the rest, it is as accurate as a good deal of research and hard work could make it. The matter of diction is always a question of taste and discretion in a historical reproduction. In the year 1350 the upper classes still spoke Norman-French, though they were just beginning to condescend to English. The lower classes spoke the English of the original Piers Plowman text, which would be considerably more obscure than their superiors' French if the two were now reproduced or imitated. The most which the chronicles can do is to catch the cadence and style of their talk, and to infuse here and there such a dash of the archaic as may indicate their fashion of speech.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To anyone living in Surrey Sir Nigel brings the area to life at a time when Guildford was a vibrant market town in the days of Knights, the castle was alive, the King resident in his Palace at Guildford and Sir Nigel's Chain of Armour being made in Tunsgate - mind blowing drama
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I purchased this title as part of an omnibus, including the white company an two other of Sir Arthur C. Dolye's works.
Although I am at this stage only in the early development of The White Company, Sir Nigel is without question one of the greatest books I have ever read. Sir Arthur's poetic turn of prose, and the wonderful chivalrous adventures of Sir Nigel and the great Chandos have given me an enriched appreciation for both the period and for Sir Arthur's works.
I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in literature, an interest in historical fiction, or indeed, just a great yarn.
I only hope that the White Company can live up to the exceptional standard set by Sir Nigel (and by all accounts, it does).
Although I am at this stage only in the early development of The White Company, Sir Nigel is without question one of the greatest books I have ever read. Sir Arthur's poetic turn of prose, and the wonderful chivalrous adventures of Sir Nigel and the great Chandos have given me an enriched appreciation for both the period and for Sir Arthur's works.
I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in literature, an interest in historical fiction, or indeed, just a great yarn.
I only hope that the White Company can live up to the exceptional standard set by Sir Nigel (and by all accounts, it does).
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A.C. Doyle is always remembered for Sherlock Holmes, which whilst excellent reading overshadows his other Creations of Sir Nigel and his White Company and Prof. Challenger and His band of Explorers. In this First Novel of Sir Nigel we see the young lad prepare himself for the tourney and battlefields of medieval france. Where he quickly learns that not all value honour as he does. It's a well paced novel moving from the english shires to sea-duels against Spainards and thence to the couldron that was france.
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