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| I | How the Black Sheep came Forth from the Fold | 1 |
| II | How Alleyne Edicson came Out into the World | 10 |
| III | How Hordle John cozened the Fuller of Lymington | 15 |
| IV | How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men | 20 |
| V | How a Strange Company Gathered at the "Pied Merlin" | 31 |
| VI | How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed | 43 |
| VII | How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands | 54 |
| VIII | The Three Friends | 64 |
| IX | How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood | 73 |
| X | How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow | 89 |
| XI | How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock | 106 |
| XII | How Alleyne Learned More Than he Could Teach | 118 |
| XIII | How the White Company set Forth to the Wars | 127 |
| XIV | How Sir Nigel Sought for a Wayside Venture | 134 |
| XV | How the Yellow Cog sailed Forth from Lepe | 144 |
| XVI | How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys | 156 |
| XVII | How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde | 163 |
| XVIII | How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye | 170 |
| XIX | How there was a Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's | 180 |
| XX | How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild | 191 |
| XXI | How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head | 200 |
| XXII | How the Bowmen held Wassail at the "Rose de Guienne" | 209 |
| XXIII | How England held the Lists at Bordeaux | 216 |
| XXIV | How a Champion came Forth from the East | 225 |
| XXV | How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle | 234 |
| XXVI | How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure | 240 |
| XXVII | How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise | 252 |
| XXVIII | How the Comrades came over the Marches of France | 261 |
| XXIX | How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine | 272 |
| XXX | How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche | 282 |
| XXXI | How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche | 290 |
| XXXII | How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree | 300 |
| XXXIII | How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles | 307 |
| XXXIV | How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna | 314 |
| XXXV | How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle | 324 |
| XXXVI | How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye | 336 |
| XXXVII | How the White Company came to be Disbanded | 348 |
| XXXVIII | Of the Home-coming to Hampshire | 356 |
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Shigeyoshi Muraguchi
reviewed The White Company on May 13, 2007
The White Company
A delightful and strange adventure story in the vein of The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet Pimpernel, but also an early foreshadow of the Mannerpunk genre which grew out of Peake's Gormenghast books.
The well-researched text creates a believable world which is undoubtedly (and delightfully) removed from the modern. Not only does Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) create a fairly accurate portrait of ever-warring Feudal Europe, but at least proposes a psychological type for the soldiers of the time.
Of course, to take such a type from (even contemporary) works is a bit of a silly falsehood, and with characteristic British whimsy, Doyle births a cast which seems realistic not despite but because of its deep-seated eccentricity. Of course, it is precisely this method which will grip Peake (in the wake of Chekhov) in his surrealistic works.
Though once quite popular, this tale has become somewhat less well-known, perhaps because it is easy to take from it a stance of bravado, militarism, and anglocentrism. Perhaps there will come to us a dissolving of such strong self-identifications with such things that people will no longer feel a need to oppose fictional portrayals, and Doyle and Kipling may return with a grain of salt.
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