The White Feather P G Wodehouse 9781544891682 Books
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The White Feather by P. G. Wodehouse
The White Feather P G Wodehouse 9781544891682 Books
The White Feather dates to 1907 and was the 6th book of his to be published. At this time he was writing about topics he most loved and were easiest for him. The setting is an English public school, what we would call a private school, and is deeply concerned with school sports and social standing. The intended audience for these early Wodehouse stories was not American and a huge amount of the language will be hard for an American to follow. Playing fives was a British form of Handball, being a member of the sevens and elevens are rugby/football terms. As will be the case with much of his later work there is a fair amount of slang that you may be able to research. My suggestion is that you let your imagination handle what you do not understand and depend on context to carry you through.This is his second book set in the fictional school of Wrykyn, The Gold Bat being the first. We are to follow young Sheen who dodges a "town versus gown" fight and is labeled a coward. The main story follows his efforts to redeem himself. Filling out the rest of the 150 page we get to see some of what will become the great Wodehouse wit, particularly in a sea battle between Wrykyn and a neighboring rival. Also well drawn are the profiles and motivations of people who will work with and against Sheen.
The White Feather is something of a classic type in British school boy stories, a fact Wodehouse will mention on a few occasions. It has more in common with books like Tom Brown School Days and may be thought of as juvenilia for middle school boys rather than all ages. Those of us who are fans should enjoy it for the chance to enjoy very the author as a young writer.
The Kindle version had no formatting issues and I note that the Amazon page indicates that besides the Kindle edition (free as of this review, April 2014) it can be downloaded from elsewhere on the web. The hardback is not free through Amazon and is part of a handsomely publish reissue of many Wodehouse titles.
My bottom line is that I enjoyed this book, even if parts of it were for me guess work. I recommend it to Wodehouse fans but I suspect that as an into to this wonderful writer, it will not work for a non-British reader.
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The White Feather P G Wodehouse 9781544891682 Books Reviews
A school story. Age has withered it.
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 was good, with no obvious errors.
I have always enjoyed anything P.G. Wodehouse has ever written. This is just as much fun as any of his other books. A must read. Marcia A
Wodehouse is absolutely amazing! he can turn a phrase like none other.
I enjoyed the easy pace of the story as it wound its way toward the redemption of Sheen I recommend for a rainy day
There is a lot of practical wisdom on life packed in berween the lines and the earthy humor. The humor is a little hard to understand as it is from an era that is long gone and one in which I was not born. Yet once I understood it I enjoyed it. A good buy for any library.
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
The White Feather dates to 1907 and was the 6th book of his to be published. At this time he was writing about topics he most loved and were easiest for him. The setting is an English public school, what we would call a private school, and is deeply concerned with school sports and social standing. The intended audience for these early Wodehouse stories was not American and a huge amount of the language will be hard for an American to follow. Playing fives was a British form of Handball, being a member of the sevens and elevens are rugby/football terms. As will be the case with much of his later work there is a fair amount of slang that you may be able to research. My suggestion is that you let your imagination handle what you do not understand and depend on context to carry you through.
This is his second book set in the fictional school of Wrykyn, The Gold Bat being the first. We are to follow young Sheen who dodges a "town versus gown" fight and is labeled a coward. The main story follows his efforts to redeem himself. Filling out the rest of the 150 page we get to see some of what will become the great Wodehouse wit, particularly in a sea battle between Wrykyn and a neighboring rival. Also well drawn are the profiles and motivations of people who will work with and against Sheen.
The White Feather is something of a classic type in British school boy stories, a fact Wodehouse will mention on a few occasions. It has more in common with books like Tom Brown School Days and may be thought of as juvenilia for middle school boys rather than all ages. Those of us who are fans should enjoy it for the chance to enjoy very the author as a young writer.
The version had no formatting issues and I note that the page indicates that besides the edition (free as of this review, April 2014) it can be downloaded from elsewhere on the web. The hardback is not free through and is part of a handsomely publish reissue of many Wodehouse titles.
My bottom line is that I enjoyed this book, even if parts of it were for me guess work. I recommend it to Wodehouse fans but I suspect that as an into to this wonderful writer, it will not work for a non-British reader.
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