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The Watcher by the Threshold: Shorter Scottish Fiction

✍ Scribed by John Buchan

Book ID
110874781
Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
290 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781847675729

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Edited and introduced by Andrew Lownie.

'The short story is the real form' John Buchan

This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan's shorter Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan's writing. Featuring shepherds, poachers, gamekeepers and drovers, they are worlds away from the tales of aristocratic adventure with which he is so often associated. Shot through with characters and places he returned to in his full-length fiction, the Buchan that emerges from this collection is a very different and much more complex writer than he is often held to be.

'John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar surroundings happening to unadventurous men.' Graham Greene

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