The Strange Stories Of John Buchan Volume 20

Name: The Strange Stories Of John Buchan
Author: John Buchan

John Buchan

Taal: Engels

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Auteur:

John Buchan

James Machin

Uitgever:

British Library Publishing

EngelsHardcover978071235582717 juli 2025256 pagina's

John Buchan

John Buchan was born in Perth. His father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland; and in 1876 the family moved to Fife where in order to attend the local school the small boy had to walk six miles a day. Later they moved again to the Gorbals in Glasgow and John Buchan went to Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow University (by which time he was already publishing articles in periodicals) and Brasenose College, Oxford. His years at Oxford - 'spent peacefully in an enclave like a monastery' - nevertheless opened up yet more horizons and he published five books and many articles, won several awards including the Newdigate Prize for poetry and gained a First. His career was equally diverse and successful after university and, despite ill-health and continual pain from a duodenal ulcer, he played a prominent part in public life as a barrister and Member of Parliament, in addition to being a writer, soldier and publisher. In 1907 he married Susan Grosvenor, and the marriage was supremely happy. They had one daughter and three sons. He was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in 1935 and became the fifteenth Governor-General of Canada, a position he held until his death in 1940. 'I don't think I remember anyone,' wrote G. M. Trevelyan to his widow, 'whose death evoked a more enviable outburst of sorrow, love and admiration.'

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To mark the 150th anniversary of Scottish author John Buchan’s birth, strange fiction expert James Machin presents a new selection of the writer’s best uncanny fiction, including stories from The Runagates Club.

Though best known today as the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, this new volume aims to foreground his contribution to the early weird tale, including some of his most classic stories alongside a number rescued from rare periodicals of the early twentieth century.

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Taal: en
Uitvoering: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 juli 2025
Aantal pagina's: 256

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Hoofdauteur: John Buchan
Tweede Auteur: James Machin
Hoofduitgeverij: British Library Publishing

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