The White Feather [Large Print] [Paperback]

P.G. Wodehouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 9, 2006

Trevor and Clowes had come down, after the Easter term had been in progress for a fortnight, to play for an Oxford A team against the school. The match had resulted in an absurdly easy victory for the visitors by over forty points. Clowes had scored five tries off his own bat, and Trevor, if he had not fed his wing so conscientiously, would probably have scored an equal number.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar (November 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 142645354X
• ISBN-13: 978-1426453540
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Wodehouse's best, but still entertaining, September 29, 2010

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Renee Miller (Womelsdorf, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White Feather (Kindle Edition)

I really enjoyed this story of a schoolboy seeking redemption. Sheen walks away from a fight and gets branded a coward. Add in some rumors, and Sheen is treated as a pariah. His only way back is to win a school athletic contest. It's a great underdog story if you can get around the British-isms (I had to look up what fives is). It's not as witty as Wodehouse's later works, but it had it's charms.

The formatting for Kindle was good, with no obvious errors.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tom Before Bertie, June 3, 2008

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B. Shuey (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White Feather (Kindle Edition)

Back before P.G. Wodehouse invented Bertie Wooster & Jeeves, back before he was the funniest writer in the English language, he was just a writer learning his craft. These stories date from then, and they owe a lot more to "Tom Brown's School Days" than anything humorous or Woosterish. Still, some sweet glimpses of life in Edwardian Britain, with all its honorable boys, and blighters, and codes of conduct, and newfangled motorcars. It would have got one more star, but the translation into ebook form on the Kindle is all screwed up, with lots of missing punctuation and truly bizarre spacing. You're better off with the print version.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good clean fun, December 19, 2011

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Francisco Laborde "Fungus" (Bentonville, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White Feather (Kindle Edition)

The beginning is grey and slow.

Both for the reader and for the main character. But then it gets better and better.

It took me about 30 pages to start understanding what the story was about and who the characters were ... and a little longer to find out that the main character was not the one I thought.

From then on, I coudn't leave the book alone until it closed in the most expected, still magic finale.

I give it four out of five stars

Fungus