The Four FeathersThis classic adventure story -- first published in 1902 -- gains new life in a blockbuster motion picture epic from Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films and remains a timeless novel of love, honor, and courage. A Soldier's Shame... It is 1882 and British officer Harry Feversham has it all: a loving fiancée, the camaraderie of fellow soldiers, a bright future in a nation at the height of its imperial power. But before he is deployed to battle in Africa, he resigns -- and receives white feathers, symbols of cowardice, from three friends...and then a fourth from his fiancée. A Love Lost... Ethne Eustace has pushed Harry out of her life, but not out of her mind. Still, when another suitor comes calling she makes a decision that could destroy Harry...and alter her life forever. A Heroic Redemption... His world in tatters, Harry goes undercover in Africa to win back the respect of his comrades. From the bustling markets of Cairo to the sizzling sands of Omdurman prison, he fights with everything he has to bring honor back to his name...and Ethne back to his heart. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 15 | |
The Last Ride Together | 25 |
The Ball at Lennon House | 34 |
The Pariah | 50 |
Harry Fevershams Plan | 56 |
The Last Reconnaissance | 70 |
Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie | 80 |
Mrs Adair Intervenes | 208 |
East and West | 221 |
Ethne Makes Another Slip | 230 |
Durrance Lets His Cigar Go Out | 241 |
Mrs Adair Makes Her Apology | 252 |
On the Nile | 262 |
Lieutenant Sutch Comes Off the Halfpay List | 269 |
General Fevershams Portraits Are Appeased | 287 |
At Glenalla | 89 |
The Wells of Obak | 101 |
Durrance Hears News of Feversham | 108 |
Durrance Sharpens His Wits | 117 |
Durrance Begins to See | 136 |
Captain Willoughby Reappears | 147 |
The Story of the First Feather | 159 |
Captain Willoughby Retires | 174 |
The Musoline Overture | 187 |
The Answer to the Overture | 195 |
The House of Stone | 296 |
Plans of Escape | 313 |
Colonel Trench Assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry | 327 |
The Last of the Southern Cross | 342 |
Feversham Returns to Ramelton | 354 |
In the Church at Glenalla | 362 |
Ethne Again Plays the Musoline Overture | 373 |
The End | 382 |
About the Author | 387 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abou Fatma Adair angareb answered Arab asked Assouan Berber blind Broad Place brought Calder camels Captain Willoughby Castleton chair Colonel Durrance Colonel Trench colour companion cried dark Dermod desert Donegal Dongola door doubt Durrance's escape Ethne Eustace Ethne's exclaimed eyes face fear fourth feather glad Glenalla Hadendoas hand Harry Feversham head hear heard House of Stone Kabbabish Khartum knew laughed leaned Lennon House Letterkenny letters Lieutenant Sutch light listened looked Lough Swilly mind Miss Eustace morning never night Nile Obak Omdurman once perhaps prison quiet quietly Ramelton remember replied rode rose sand seemed shook side silence slowly smile Soudan speak spoke stood story Suakin suddenly sure talk telegram tell terrace thing thought to-night told took trees turned violin voice Wadi Halfa waited walked wall white feather Wiesbaden window wish wonder words zareeba zither
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Page 6 - Besides, it's the boy's birthday,' added the major of artillery. ' He wants to stay, that's plain. You wouldn't find a youngster of fourteen sit all these hours without a kick of the foot against the table-leg unless the conversation entertained him. Let him stay, Feversham ! ' For once General Feversham relaxed the iron discipline under which the boy lived. ' Very well,
Page 12 - They were men of one stamp ; no distinction of uniform could obscure their relationship — lean-faced men, hard as iron, rugged in feature, thin-lipped, with firm chins and straight level mouths, narrow foreheads, and the steel-blue inexpressive eyes ; men of courage and resolution. no doubt, but without subtleties, or nerves, or that burdensome gift of imagination; sturdy men, a little wanting in delicacy, hardly conspicuous for intellect ; to put it frankly, men rather stupid — all of them,...
Page 11 - The light wavered across the portraits, glowing here upon a red coat, glittering there upon a corselet of steel. For there was not one man's portrait upon the walls which did not glisten with the colours of a uniform, and there were the portraits of many men. Father and son, the Fevershams had been soldiers from the very birth of the family.
Page 12 - Ramillies wigs and steel breastplates, in velvet coats with powder on their hair, in shakos and swallow-tails, in high stocks and frogged coats, they looked down upon this last Feversham, summoning him to the like service. They were men of one stamp ; no distinction of uniform could obscure their relationship — lean-faced men, hard as iron, rugged in feature, thin-lipped, with firm chins, and straight, level mouths, narrow foreheads, and the steel-blue inexpressive eyes; men of courage and resolution,...