{"description": "*Sir Nigel* is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel *The White Company*, and describes the early life of that book's hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edward III in the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. The character is loosely based on the historical knight Nele Loring.", "title": "Sir Nigel", "covers": [7150792, -1, 11631633, 12265982], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "subject_places": ["Great Britain"], "first_publish_date": "September 1988", "subject_people": ["Nele Loring"], "key": "/works/OL262583W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL161167A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "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."}], "subjects": ["Classic Literature", "Ficion", "Fiction", "Great Britain in fiction", "History", "Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453", "Knights and knighthood", "Knights and knighthood in fiction", "Fiction, historical", "Great britain, fiction", "Hundred years' war, 1339-1453, fiction", "Fiction, general", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["Edward III, 1327-1377", "Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453"], "latest_revision": 26, "revision": 26, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T07:26:31.097043"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-01-19T11:11:13.966555"}}