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The White Feather

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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.

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.

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