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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason
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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.
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schmia
The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason
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Panpan

I want to watch the movie because I suspect it works well as a period piece. But as a book I couldn't get into it. Sentences like this didn't help: "Women were given to a hinting modesty of speech, at all events the best of them."

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I'll risk some immodesty, then, and just say: This book alternated between being annoying and downright painful to read. #litsyatoz.

(Read it on my phone, so am just tagging the cats instead! #catsoflitsy)

Lcsmcat Cute cats they are, too. 😻 6y
schmia @Lcsmcat Thank you! The reading nook couch is new and they are clearly big fans. 6y
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twohectobooks
The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason
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#novemberbythenumbers #four

This one‘s been on my #tbr for way too long.