The Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason
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The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.
The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha. He is faced with censure from three of his comrades for cowardice, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him, from Captain Trench and Lieutenants Castleton and Willoughby, and the loss of the support of his Irish fiancée, Ethne Eustace, who presents him with the fourth feather. His best friend in the regiment, Captain Durrance becomes his rival for Ethne.
(Summary extracted from Wikipedia) (11 hr 26 min)
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BAF
The book is excellent. The women readers are very good. However most of the men readers are awful.
The book is good but most of the readers are terrible
Bill
I agree with one of the the reviewers who wrote that the male readers are terrible; they mis-pronounce words frequently and don’t even try to do characters during dialogue; they also constantly stumble over phrases like they can’t see the next word in the text, so the overall sound is staccato. The female readers are good and do the characters during dialogue as well as reading smoothly. Unfortunately, most of the chapters are read by men.
interesting tale
Bruce G
I really enjoyed this tale! It was very well read. Thank you!
Ms. Elizabeth
readers were ok. it was the recording that was awful.
The Four Feathers
David R. Smith
Well Read, Fun listen and recommended... Thanks!
I already know how it's going to end and I stopped listening
A LibriVox Listener
Gary olman has super sloppy pronunciation, he makes it very difficult to understand discussions. he pauses bid sentence then runs through periods we need a version two of this book with a good reader
poggiali54
bit of an epic tale to stick with - left with a feeling that it was good in parts and not particularly as a whole - glad to have finished it though
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Avid Listener
A powerful story, skillfully woven by a master author. It is a shame that so few of Mason's books are available.