Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was a British author. He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He is the author of more than twenty books, among them The Four Feathers, originally published in London in 1902. His next successful work was At the Villa Rose (1910), where he introduced his French detective, Hanaud. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry in the 1906 general election. He served only a single term in Parliament, retiring at the next general election in January 1910. He contributed a short story, The Conjurer, to The Queen's Book of the Red Cross. His other works include The Philanderers (1897), Miranda of the Balcony (1899), Clementina (1901), Ensign Knightley and Other Stories (1901), The Four Feathers (1902), Running Water (1907), The Witness for the Defence (1913), The Summons (1920), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929), Fire Over England (1937) and The House of the Arrow (1924).
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There aren't many mountaineering novels, but this is one of them. Like Mason's Four Feathers, it's a romantic adventure story, the final scene set on the great Brenva face of Mont Blanc, though much of the story takes place in England.
A word of warning about this edition; If you look on p. 3, you will see the phrase "humaning her with a smile." The original, of course, reads "humanizing her with a smile." The misprint of "humaning" is also found in the Project Gutenberg version, and I imagine this text has been taken from Gutenberg (which also has some other mistakes in it). So why not simply download the Gutenberg text, which is free, and put up with the misprints? or, if you want a better version, go search one of the used booksellers on the web, and get a used copy of the real thing?
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Garratt Skinner, Walter Hine, Michel Revailloud, Wallie Hine, Pierre Delouvain, Gabriel Strood, Captain Barstow, Mont Blanc, Captain Chayne, Chayne Comes, Archie Parminter, Glacier des Nantillons, Sylvia Thesiger, Monsieur Lattery, Col Dolent, Chayne Returns, Sylvia's Father Makes, John Lattery, The Brenva Ridge, Sylvia Parts, Sylvia Tells More Than She Knows, Joseph Hine, The House of the Running Water, Col du Geant, Aiguille Verte Browse Sample Pages:
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Garratt Skinner, Walter Hine, Michel Revailloud, Wallie Hine, Pierre Delouvain, Gabriel Strood, Captain Barstow, Mont Blanc, Captain Chayne, Chayne Comes, Archie Parminter, Glacier des Nantillons, Sylvia Thesiger, Monsieur Lattery, Col Dolent, Chayne Returns, Sylvia's Father Makes, John Lattery, The Brenva Ridge, Sylvia Parts, Sylvia Tells More Than She Knows, Joseph Hine, The House of the Running Water, Col du Geant, Aiguille Verte Browse Sample Pages:
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