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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901, Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year.Against the background of the Mahdist War, young Faversham disgraces himself by quitting the army, which others perceive as cowardice, symbolized by the four white feathers they give him. He redeems himself with acts of great courage and wins back the heart of the woman he loves.

s his commission shortly before being deployed into battle in Africa, his friends and fiancée turn on him, giving him four white feathers . . . symbols of cowardice. But Harry is no coward, and he decides to prove himself. Feversham's quest to restore his honor will take him undercover in the bustling markets of Cairo to the scorching deserts of the Sudan, from unbearable torture at the hands of barbaric tribesmen to ecstasy in the arms of the woman he loves. It is an unforgettable journey and a tale of true heroism and bravery in the finest British tradition. The Four Feathers has been filmed numerous times, most notably with the 1939 adaptation directed by Zoltan Korda and starring John Clements. It remains one of the landmark adventure stories of British soldiery, standing alongside the finest works of Rudyard Kipling and Talbot Mundy with its powerful story and epic scope.

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Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901, Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year.[1] Against the background of the Mahdist War, young Faversham disgraces himself by quitting the army, which others perceive as cowardice, symbolized by the four white feathers they give him. He redeems himself with acts of great courage and wins back the heart of the woman he loves.

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901 Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year. Against the background of the Mahdist War, the "coward" young Feversham disgraces himself by quitting the army but redeems himself, feather by feather, with acts of physical courage and wins back the heart of the woman he loves. British officer Harry Faversham resigns his commission just prior to the Battle of Omdurman for personal reasons, rather than cowardice, but he is faced with censure from three of his comrades, each of whom presents him with a feather, and the loss of the support of his fiancée, who presents him with the fourth feather. Questioning his true motives, Harry resolves to redeem himself in combat, travelling on his own to the war-ravaged Sudan.

With a generous 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. An original detailed author biography, page headers and modern design and page layout exemplify the attention to detail given this premium quality volume, which contains the complete, unabridged text of Mason's classic novel. The Four Feathers... With trouble percolating in the Sudan young Harry Feversham, contemplating a lengthy deployment and separation from his fiancee, resigns his commission in the Regiment with the intention of settling down and starting life with his new wife. His comrades-in-arms view his decision in a different light, and three fellow officers, his close friends, express their reaction by delivering white feathers - an accusation of cowardice - to Harry. When his fiancee learns what has happened, she breaks the engagement...and delivers a fourth white feather. With his life in ruins and the cloud of cowardice hanging over his name, Harry undertakes an incredible odyssey to prove his courage and redeem himself by returning the four feathers and gaining an admission from those who delivered them that he is not, after all a coward. A.E.W. Mason Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was born in London on May 7, 1865 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was a leading member of the Dramatic Society and contemplated a theatrical career, appearing in productions on the London stage during the late 1880s. He began writing during this period, seeing his first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, published in 1895. A commercial failure, it was quickly followed by The Courtship of Maurice Buckler (1896), which was well-received and commercially successful, launching Mason's writing career. Already a well-known and successful novelist, in 1902 Mason wrote The Four Feathers, generally regarded as the masterpiece of a career that produced some thirty novels and four volumes of short stories, as well as three major theatrical productions and one screenplay. His most enduringly popular work, The Four Feathers is a tale of cowardice, heroism, duty, redemption, and sacrifice set against the background of the Egyptian and British military campaigns in the Sudan in the mid- to late 1880's. The book was an immediate success, and the tale is still widely known today, with numerous film adaptations and perennial reprint editions. Elected to parliament in 1904, Mason served one term, retiring at the next general election in 1910. Upon leaving office Mason published At the Villa Rose, the first of his "Inspector Hanaud" mystery novels. There would ultimately be five mysteries featuring his French detective. Still popular with mystery fans, the Inspector Hanaud stories have been in and out of print over the years. Between 1909 and 1913, three plays written by Mason were produced by Sir George Alexander in St James' Theatre. Despite his age —he was nearly fifty years old — at the outbreak of World War I Mason joined the military, first serving as a major in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, then transferring to naval intelligence, helping to set up counter-espionage networks. His experiences in espionage would serve as the inspiration for his first postwar novel, The Summons (1920). A year later he published The Royal Exchange, his first work of non-fiction. With advancing age Mason's output slowed. While writing the noteworthy Fire Over England in 1936 he became fascinated with British naval history, publishing The Life of Francis Drake in 1941. He was working on a life of Admiral Robert Blake (1598-1657) when he died, at age 83, on November 22, 1948, reputed to have declined knighthood because "such honors have little meaning for a childless man."

“The Four Feathers,” by A. E. W. Mason, is book is full of noble ideas and notions of Victorian honor in the days of the British Empire. The front cover of the book might lead you to misunderstanding that "Four Feathers" is a book about war; actually, though it deals with the war in the Sudan in late 19th century, the book consists of superb descriptions of complicated psychology found in the hero, the heroine and their mutual friend. "Four Feathers" as a whole is not a book like "She" or "Beau Geste," but it is rather a special kind of romance which could be found only in this era. To disprove his disgrace, the hero Harry Feversham, who quit his regiment just before being sent to the Sudan, decides to go to Africa, disguising himself as a Greek, and firmly is determined to give back three white feathers sent to him as a symbol of his being a coward. One clever touch is given here; his fiancee also added one feather to them, and rejected him in the face before their marriage. There are certainly descriptions of adventure under the sizzling sun of Africa, but you must wait. Before they come, we are introduced to the complex relationship between Harry and other characters involved in his action. Various feelings of love, regret, courage, and suspicion, all caused as aftermath of the crucial action of sending white feathers, follow with a surprisingly and deeply psychological insight. Though the story is, as you expect, very melodramatic and sentimental, the characters are well-drawn and convincing, and if not as insightful as Henry James, surely deserves much serious attention. The adventure scenes come in the last third of the book, and the descriptions of the House of Stone, concentration camp of POW, (where the author himself visited after the war ended) are still realistic and shocking, and will haunt your mind after reading. As an adventure story, Mason’s book also does not disappoint. In short, "Four Feathers" is one of the greatest forgotten bestsellers in the English literature.