R. C Sherriff

"For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don't Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered speculative novel about how a small English village prepares for the end of the world. Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher in his mid-fifties with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride in life is winning poultry breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society....

Harry Faversham is one of a group of close friends in the British Regiment. When he abruptly resigns his commission, his friends and fiancě each give him a white feather which is the symbol of cowardice. He then has to struggle to regain his reputation.

After resigning his post on the eve of battle, a young British officer receives feathers from his comrades accusing him of cowardice and must fight to regain his honor.

Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...