The Leithen Stories: The Power-House: John Macnab: The Dancing Floor: Sick Heart River: 93 (Canongate Classics) - Softcover

Buchan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862419956 ISBN 13: 9780862419950

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Buchan John

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Críticas:

Buchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions, and that your life is what you make of it. Perhaps his peculiarly Scottish combination of Romanticism and Calvinism - daring living and high thinking - is due to return to fashion. * * The Independent Magazine * * He explores different themes ... He expounds theories through a wide variety of subjects but all the while there is the basic ingredient of telling a good story so the reader can enjoy their sheer entertainment value. * * Yorkshire Gazette and Herald * * John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar suroundings happening to unadventurous men. * * Graham Greene * *

Reseña del editor:

Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to the author's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and MP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of respectability. In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle; in John Macnab he makes his own adventure by playing the poacher; in Sick Heart River, seeking a lost friend he meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada. Each book contrasts with the others; each pulls us into Buchan's world and holds us there.

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• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0862419956
• ISBN 13: 9780862419950
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 720