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Title: The Four Feathers (Penguin Classics) by A. E. W. Mason, Gary Hoppenstand ISBN: 0-14-218001-7 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Real Four Feathers - Different Than the Movie Versions
Comment: This book is full of noble ideas and notions of Victorian honor in the days of the British Empire. Those who come to this book after seeing the 1939 Korda classic, or even the more stark 1979 re-make might be in for a suprise. Even as this review is written yet another cineamtic foray is being planned with a Fall 2002 re-re-make. No doubt 21st century notions of Political Correctness shall be heavy handed on this 19th Century classic.
Still, I think readers will be in for a bit of a disappointment here. Not for the book itself which is a sublime piece of writing, a work typical ot the pathos of the time, but because of the lack of action contained therein. This is a pyschological and emotional work. The main charcters have many inner feelings to deal with. The plot moves slowly at times, building to a gradual crescendo typical of Victorian novels of the day before it resolves itself in rapid sequences.
The film versions convey the general impression of the book, but there are not big clamatic battles of Omdurman or prison breaks which made the Korda movie such a rousing epic. Here Harry Faversham is very much on his own to resolve his fears and inner emotions, as are his friends. Its good to see a book like this revived, but readers who come to it from the movie theater or video are apt to be suprised at what they find here. Lets hope the find the suprise a pleasant and interesting one. I know I did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful read
Comment: I read this book in anticipation of the Sept. 2002 Shekar Kapur movie of the same title.
I found The Four Feathers to be an engrossing character examination, with a bit of action as the background. The romance at the center was a bonus, as was the detailed glimpse of life in Britain at that time, the expectations that men and women held for one another and themselves.
I was, however, disappointed by the inaccuracy in the synopsis on the book's back cover and repeated on this website which states that Harry Faversham saves the lives of the three men who gave him the white feathers in order to be redemeed.
I'm not sure where the writer of the synopsis came by that idea but it sure doesn't happen like that in the book. Not to spoil the story for you, but Harry proves his bravery in rather more complex ways.
I also was pleasantly surprised that much of the book is told from the perspective of Ethne, Harry's beloved. Her struggle to "do the right thing" is just as compelling as Harry's struggle to make up for the one time he didn't.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clean,exciting and romantic..
Comment: My mother bought this book for me when I was a young girl-tomorrow I'll be 66 yrs old..I remember reading it over and over and even though I knew the ending, I'll could sabor the whole story like the first time--Now I'm buying for my grandchildren and hoping that they will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Title: The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Hope, Anthony Rupert of Hentzau Hope ISBN: 014043755X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Random Harvest by James Hilton ISBN: 0786705930 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Beau Geste by Percival C. Wren ISBN: 0899681352 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title:The Four Feathers (Widescreen Collector's Edition) ASIN: B00005JLO2 Publisher: Paramount Home Video Pub. Date: 18 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.04 |
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Title: Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini ISBN: 0451527976 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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