The Four Feathers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Four Feathers, credited to A. E. W. Mason, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Four Feathers, by A.E.W. Mason. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Four Feathers
• Author credits: A. E. W. Mason
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 11:26:44

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Adventure
• War

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Chapter I. A Crimean Night — 23:17
2. 02 - Chapter II. Captain Trench and a Telegram — 17:57
3. 03 - Chapter III. The Last Ride Together — 14:30
4. 04 - Chapter IV. The Ball at Lennon House — 29:12
5. 05 - Chapter V. The Pariah — 11:25
6. 06 - Chapter VI. Harry Feversham's Plan — 21:16
7. 07 - Chapter VII. The Last Reconnaissance — 14:18
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. Lieutenant Sutch is tempted to lie — 13:08
9. 09 - Chapter IX. At Glenalla — 23:04
10. 10 - Chapter X. The Wells of Obak — 12:57
11. 11 - Chapter XI. Durrance hears News of Feversham — 15:45
12. 12 - Chapter XII. Durrance sharpens his Wits — 31:32
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. Durrance begins to see — 19:37
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. Captain Willoughby reappears — 21:20
15. 15 - Chapter XV. The Story of the First Feather — 26:58
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. Captain Willoughby retires — 21:46
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. The Musoline Overture — 14:51
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. The Answer to the Overture — 25:28
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. Mrs. Adair interferes — 23:03
20. 20 - Chapter XX. West and East — 18:17
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. Ethne makes Another Slip — 21:59
22. 22 - Chapter XXII. Durrance lets his Cigar go out — 20:20
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII Mrs. Adair Makes Her Apology — 22:25
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV. On the Nile — 13:40

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