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Sir Nigel

Arthur Conan Doyle

Set during the opening years of the Hundred Years' War, it follows young Nigel Loring, a knight serving King Edward III, as he seeks to prove his honor and win his lady's hand.

"Sir Nigel" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical novel. Set during the opening years of the Hundred Years' War, it follows young Nigel Loring, a knight serving King Edward III, as he seeks to prove his honor and win his lady's hand.

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In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England, for out of the east there drifted a monstrous cloud, purple and piled, heavy with evil, climbing slowly up the hushed heaven. In the shadow of that strange cloud the leaves drooped in the trees, the birds ceased their calling, and the cattle and the sheep gathered cowering under the hedges. A gloom fell upon all the land, and men stood with their eyes upon the strange cloud and a heaviness upon their hearts. They crept into the churches where the trembling people were blessed and shriven by the trembling priests. Outside no bird flew, and there came no rustling from the woods, nor any of the homely sounds of Nature. All was still, and nothing moved, save only the great cloud which rolled up and onward, with fold on fold from the black horizon. To the west was the light summer sky, to the east this brooding cloud-bank, creeping ever slowly across, until the last thin blue gleam faded away and the whole vast sweep of the heavens was one great leaden arch.

Contents

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02I. The House of Loring
  3. 03II. How the Devil Came to Waverley
  4. 04III. The Yellow Horse of Crooksbury
  5. 05IV. How the Summoner Came to the Manor House of Tilford
  6. 06V. How Nigel Was Tried by the Abbot of Waverley
  7. 07VI. In Which Lady Ermyntrude Opens the Iron Coffer
  8. 08VII. How Nigel Went Marketing to Guildford
  9. 09VIII. How the King Hawked on Crooksbury Heath
  10. 10IX. How Nigel Held the Bridge at Tilford
  11. 11X. How the King Greeted His Seneschal of Calais
  12. 12XI. In the Hall of the Knight of Duplin
  13. 13XII. How Nigel Fought the Twisted Man of Shalford
  14. 14XIII. How the Comrades Journeyed Down the Old, Old Road
  15. 15XIV. How Nigel Chased the Red Ferret
  16. 16XV. How the Red Ferret Came to Cosford
  17. 17XVI. How the King’s Court Feasted in Calais Castle
  18. 18XVII. The Spaniards on the Sea
  19. 19XVIII. How Black Simon Claimed Forfeit from the King of Sark
  20. 20XIX. How a Squire of England Met a Squire of France
  21. 21XX. How the English Attempted the Castle of La Brohinière
  22. 22XXI. How the Second Messenger Went to Cosford
  23. 23XXII. How Robert of Beaumanoir Came to Ploermel
  24. 24XXIII. How Thirty of Josselin Encountered Thirty of Ploermel
  25. 25XXIV. How Nigel Was Called to His Master
  26. 26XXV. How the King of France Held Counsel at Maupertuis
  27. 27XXVI. How Nigel Found His Third Deed
  28. 28XXVII. How the Third Messenger Came to Cosford

About this edition

Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
346 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers