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John Buchan was born in Perth in 1875, the son of a Church of Scotland Minister. After being educated locally, he attended Glasgow University and Brasenose College Oxford. He exchanged comparative poverty for affluence by his success as an author, but it was as a lawyer that his reputation began. He went to South Africa to serve as private secretary to the British Colonial administrator, Alfred, Lord Milner and assisted in reconstruction of the country after the Boer War. He entered publishing in 1906 as partner in the firm of his friend Thomas Nelson and married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, in 1907. They had four children. Buchan was elected to Parliament in 1911, served in various capacities during the First World War, including writing speeches for Sir Douglas Haig and taking on the role of Director of Information under Lord Beaverbrook. He returned to the House of Commons in 1927 and then in 1935 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada and became Lord Tweedsmuir. He died in 1940. John Buchan was a prolific author and wrote poetry and biographies as well as novels, but he is still best remembered for his adventure stories and in particular the five Hannay novels: The Thirty Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, and The Island of Sheep.

Collins Classics

Pan 70th Anniversary

Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine

The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written

Penguin Modern Classics

Helikon Edition

Essential Novelists

Big Book of Best Short Stories

7 best short stories

Richard Hannay

7 best short stories - specials

7 short stories for your Myers-Briggs type

The Richard Hannay Adventures - Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in the Guardian

The The Richard Hannay Adventures

Xist Classics

Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine

Svenska Ljud Classica

Unabridged Start Publishing LLC

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Greenmantle

Publicado el 23 de julio de 2016
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During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment—in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear, the mark... Más información

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