This Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Not a machine-scanned or facsimile copy, this large print volume contains the complete text of Mason's classic novel, prepared by human editors. The Four Feathers... With trouble percolating in the Sudan young Harry Feversham, contemplating a lengthy deployment and separation from his fiancee, resigns his commission in the Regiment with the intention of settling down and starting life with his new wife. His comrades-in-arms view his decision in a different light, and three fellow officers, his close friends, express their reaction by delivering white feathers - an accusation of cowardice - to Harry. When his fiancee learns what has happened, she breaks the engagement...and delivers a fourth white feather. With his life in ruins and the cloud of cowardice hanging over his name, Harry undertakes an incredible odyssey to prove his courage and redeem himself by returning the four feathers and gaining an admission from those who delivered them that he is not, after all a coward. A.E.W. Mason Already a well-known and successful novelist, in 1902 Mason wrote "The Four Feathers", generally regarded as the masterpiece of a career that produced some thirty novels and four volumes of short stories, as well as three major theatrical productions and one screenplay. Elected to parliament in 1904, Mason served one term, retiring at the next general election in 1910. While in office he published "The Broken Road" in 1907. Sharply critical of some aspects of British colonial policy in India, the novel inspired King George V, a fan of Mason's work, to begin to instigate reforms. Despite his age, at the outbreak of WW I Mason joined the military, serving in naval intelligence, helping to set up counter-espionage networks. He was working on a life of Admiral Robert Blake (1598-1657) when he died, at age 83, on November 22, 1948, reputed to have declined knighthood because "such honors have little meaning for a childless man."