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The Leithen Stories
John Buchan
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Description for The Leithen Stories
Paperback. Collects three stories featuring Buchan's character, Edward Leithen, a prosperous Scots lawyer and MP in London. He seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of respectability. These stories present him: making his own adventure by playing the poacher, and seeking a lost friend in the wastes of Canada. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 158 x 46. Weight in Grams: 572.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
728
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Canongate Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780862419950
SKU
V9780862419950
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37
About John Buchan
John Buchan's adventure stories, The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, have long held a place as classics of their kind. Only now is his historical fiction, which he himself regarded as his finest work, receiving its full due.
Reviews for The Leithen Stories
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 ... Read more
The Independent Magazine
He explores different themes ... He expounds theories ... Read more