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The Four Feathers

ISBN: 9780142180013 | 0142180017
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 10/1/2001

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers-symbols of cowardice-one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. 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. Having proved his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée. This suspenseful tale movingly depicts a distin... MORE
Introductionvii
Selected Background Readingxxvii
A Note on the Textxxxi
A Crimean Night
5(10)
... MORECaptain Trench and a Telegram
15(7)
The Last Ride Together
22(6)
The Ball at Lennon House
28(12)
The Pariah
40(5)
Harry Feversham's Plan
45(10)
The Last Reconnaissance
55(7)
Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie
62(7)
At Glenalla
69(9)
The Wells of Obak
78(5)
Durrance Hears News of Feversham
83(7)
Durrance Sharpens His Wits
90(14)
Durrance Begins to See
104(8)
Captain Willoughby Reappears
112(9)
The Story of the First Feather
121(11)
Captain Willoughby Retires
132(9)
The Melusine Overture
141(6)
The Answer to the Overture
147(10)
Mrs. Adair Intervenes
157(9)
East and West
166(7)
Ethne Makes Another Slip
173(8)
Durrance Lets His Cigar Go Out
181(8)
Mrs. Adair Makes Her Apology
189(7)
On the Nile
196(5)
Lieutenant Sutch Comes Off the Half-Pay List
201(13)
General Feversham's Portraits Are Appeased
214(6)
The House of Stone
220(12)
Plans of Escape
232(10)
Colonel Trench Assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry
242(11)
The Last of the Southern Cross
253(8)
Feversham Returns to Ramelton
261(6)
In the Church at Glenalla
267(8)
Ethne Again Plays the Melusine Overture
275(6)
The End
281

Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has researched and published widely in the areas of popular culture and popular fiction studies, and he edited the Penguin Classics editions of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau and A.E.W. Mason's The Four Feathers. He is the past president of the Popular Culture Association, and the current editor of The Journal of Popular Culture.



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