Angliyskiy pisatel Artur Konan Doyl - neprevzoydennyy master detektivnogo i istoriko-priklyuchencheskogo zhanra. Mnogie personazhi, vyshedshie iz-pod ego pera, obreli poistine grandioznuyu izvestnost: eto i genialnyy syschik Sherlok Holms so svoim vernym sputnikom doktorom Vatsonom, i neugomonnyy brigadir Zherar, i ekstsentrichnyy professor Chellendzher... V ryadu proslavlennyh geroev Konan Doyla daleko ne poslednee mesto zanimaet angliyskiy rytsar ser Naydzhel Loring, s kotorym chitatel vstretitsya na stranitsah istoricheskih romanov «Ser Naydzhel» i «Belyy otryad», povestvuyuschih o sobytiyah XIV veka i Stoletney voyne mezhdu Angliey i Frantsiey, ob epohe krovoprolitnyh bitv, blagorodnyh rytsarey i prekrasnyh dam. Roman «Izgnanniki», takzhe vklyuchennyy v izdanie, schitaetsya etalonom priklyuchencheskoy literatury naravne s luchshimi knigami Aleksandra Dyuma, Valtera Skotta i Fenimora Kupera. Deystvie romana proishodit v epohu pravleniya Lyudovika XIV. Pervaya chast posvyaschena dvortsovym intrigam, v tsentre kotoryh taynoe poruchenie korolya, mechtayuschego o brake s samoy umnoy zhenschinoy Frantsii gospozhoy de Mentenon. Vtoraya chast povestvuet o neveroyatnyh priklyucheniyah v debryah zagadochnoy Ameriki, kuda glavnye geroi, ispolniv volyu korolya, vynuzhdeny bezhat ot karayuschey ruki zakona.
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