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Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms , and combines the author's interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism , and the fate of Scotland. [ 2 ]
First US edition. The Courts of the Morning is a 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan, featuring his character Sandy Arbuthnot.The prologue is narrated by Richard Hannay, so the novel is sometimes included in Buchan's Hannay series.
Writing in 1975, David Daniell said that the collection contains much material that Buchan will later return to in greater depth: "The Outgoing of the Tide" points to Witch Wood, and "The Watcher by the Threshold" and "No Man's Land" point to The Dancing Floor. [7] An episode from "Basilissa" was re-used by Buchan in The Dancing Floor. [8]
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
John Buchan bibliography Buchan in 1936 Novels ↙ 29 Collections ↙ 2 Poems ↙ 4 Books edited ↙ 14 Non-fiction ↙ 42 Biographies ↙ 10 References and footnotes John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the ...
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The Witchwood Crown is the fifth novel in Tad Williams' Osten Ard saga, following The Heart of What Was Lost and preceding Empire of Grass.It is the first novel of Williams' The Last King of Osten Ard tetrology.
John Boynton Priestley OM (/ ˈ p r iː s t l i /; 13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. [1]His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in The Good Companions (1929), which first brought him to wide public notice.