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  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (16 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743448219
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743448215
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Accused by three of his friends and his fiancae of cowardice after resigning his military commission on the eve of the British invasion of the Sudan, Harry Feversham attempts to prove his valor in the Sudan during the revolt of the 1880s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A rip-snorting adventure classic returns!, 16 Jan 2002
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This is a great classic tale of adventure and honour, in the grand tradition of "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "Beau Geste." Harry Feversham, English officer and gentleman, has been terrified since childhood by his father's tales of cowardice under fire and the resulting dishonour. As a young man, when learning that his regiment has been called to action, he resigns his commission unnerved by the possibilities of showing cowardice and facing a horrible death in the Sudan at the hands of the fanatic Madhi's dervishes. Before departing, three of his brother-officers send him white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, and Ethne Eustace, the woman he was to have married, gives him a fourth. In despair, Feversham decides to follows his regiment to Africa, in search of an opportunity to make his former friends take the feathers back. This quest takes him to the grim, dangerous slums of Cairo and a hellish trek across the Sudanese desert, as he penetrates into the heart of the Madhi's infernal domain in Omdurman to rescue rescue the very men who questioned his valor and regain his honour and the respect and love of Ethne.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "THE" colonial (mid-late) Great Britain ADVENTURE..., 28 Jul 2007
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A true "classic" of colonial adventure.

You can read it at many levels, the basic one of course is the tale about valor/cowardice and how this duality has no middle ground, either you do your duty (as per late XIXth standards) or YOU FAIL MISERABLY... in a way a civilized fanaticism of the best class... But you can also read it as a matter of fact "manifest destiny" for Britain as ruler of a vast Empire... how you MUST avenge GORDON... there is also no middle ground here... we got the men, we got the guns, we got the money, and by jingo etc.

The most interesting part of the book (once the other layers understood) for me was the inner conflict of Harry... beautifully wrote down... after all it is not that simple... he has done nothing wrong... he has followed the family tradition of soldiering but he thinks that marriage is enough excuse to stop, and so all military obligations are extinct and he can follow his own desires... but HE is no master of his future as he soon discovers...

And then, it is as much about Ethne and DURRANCE! (who in the novel it is not one of the white feather senders... those are Captain Trench, Castleton and Willoughby... much more like it!... and it makes you love the Durrance character much more... and also Trench...), and then the blind colonel uses power of deduction who makes some chapters read like the best Conan Doyle!... somehow maybe the best chapters and parts of the book... so you are enthralled by THE MUSOLINE overture and how and by whom is played...

Really a wonderful book, I must confess I have an old hardback edition, (with pictures of an OLD black and white film I have never seen!!! and clearly does no follow the plot of the book!...) but I am sure this paperback edition must be OK.

The book is much more deeper than the lot of films based on it. Actually "THE" best version is of course the KORDA brothers one (from a point of view of "a great adventure film"...)...


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PS: The last film remake is really awful!... it simply shows COWARDICE down your throat all the way... A blatant mistake... and the Sudan looks like some suburban half-developed or semi-dig hole... A SHAME.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great tale, 1 April 2000
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The Four Feathers is a tale of honour. A young gentleman, Harry Feversham, who is descended from a long line of valiant soldiers, is called up with his regiment to fight in the Sudan. However, just as the telegram arrives (which tells him to give the news to his friends), he is celebrating his betrothal. He does not give the telegram to his friends, but resigns his commission, and goes to Ireland, where he is to be married. Half way through the ball for his betrothal, three feathers are sent to Harry, one from each of his friends - Lieutenant Willoughby, Captain Trench, and Major Castleton. Interestingly, his very best friend, Durrance, does not send a feather, not having heard. The three feathers are supposed to show disdain for Harry, as they are the symbol of dishonour and cowardice; however, this is nothing until Ethne herself, Harry's betrothed, adds a fourth feather, thus giving the book its title. From thence Harry fights to return the feathers and thus recover his family's name.
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