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Author:

Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948.

Title:

The four feathers / A.E.W. Mason ; edited with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xxix, 284 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

British--Sudan--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Cowardice--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Sudan--Fiction.
British.
Cowardice.
Male friendship.
Soldiers.
Sudan.
Adventure stories.
Adventure stories.
War stories.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
War fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Love stories.
War stories.
Action and adventure fiction.
War fiction.

Other Authors:

Hoppenstand, Gary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix).

Contents:

Ethne Again Plays the Melusine Overture. Captain Trench and a Telegram -- The Last Ride Together -- The Ball at Lennon House -- The Pariah -- Harry Feversham's Plan -- The Last Reconnaissance -- Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie -- At Glenalla -- The Wells of Obak -- Durrance Hears News of Feversham -- Durrance Sharpens His Wits -- Durrance Begins to See -- Captain Willoughby Reappears -- The Story of the First Feather -- Captain Willoughby Retires -- The Melusine Overture -- The Answer to the Overture -- Mrs. Adair Intervenes -- East and West -- Ethne Makes Another Slip -- Durrance Lets His Cigar Go Out -- Mrs. Adair Makes Her Apology -- On the Nile -- Lieutenant Sutch Comes Off the Half-Pay List -- General Feversham's Portraits Are Appeased -- The House of Stone -- Plans of Escape -- Colonel Trench Assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry -- The Last of the Southern Cross -- Feversham Returns to Ramelton -- In the Church at Glenalla -- Ethne Again Plays the Melusine Overture.

Summary:

"Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers symbols of cowardice one each by his three best friends and one by his fiancee. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives."--Back cover.

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

ISBN:

9780142180013
0142180017

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47098760

LCCN:

2001036032

Locations:

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton) — Copies: 7