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The final segment referenced The White Company as Conan Doyle's masterwork, saying it dwarfs even his famous Sherlock Holmes stories.
final reading from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's masterwork, a work compared with which the sign of four, the hour of the Baskervilles, the study in Scarlet are as nothing. So these are the final lines of...
— Episode: 321: Hundred Years' War: A Storm of Swor...
Episode: 321: Hundred Years' War: A Storm of Swords (Part 4...
The final segment referenced The White Company as Conan Doyle's masterwork, saying it dwarfs even his famous Sherlock Holmes stories.
final reading from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's masterwork, a work compared with which the sign of four, the hour of the Baskervilles, the study in Scarlet are as nothing. So these are the final lines of Tom Holland's favorite book.
Episode: 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1...
The novel was mentioned alongside Sir Nigel as part of the same series and praised by the hosts.
So Tom Holland, that beautiful passage of prose, the introduction of the Red Ferret in the book Sir Nigel, which you recommended to me, you regard that as one of the great landmarks in Western literature, don't you? I'd completely forgotten the Red Ferret... Arthur Conan Doyle thought that Sir Nigel and the other in the same series, The White Company, were better than Sherlock Holmes.
Episode: 124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2
They recalled reading ConanDoyle's historical novel The White Company as a favourite depiction of the 14thcentury era.
I think we talked about this before, the Conan Doyle's novels. The White Company. White Company, Sun Nigel.
Episode: 85. Sherlock Holmes
One speaker read this book as a child and loved it, noting it was set during the Hundred Years' War.
Have you read The White Company? I have. I love everyone says, oh, it's dreary, maybe I loved it. I read it as a child. And there's a sequel, Sonight on, which is brilliant.