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Author : John Buchan,Barbara Roden,Christopher Roden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English fiction
ISBN : OCLC:137751396
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783752408430
Reproduction of the original: The Watcher By the Threshold by John Buchan
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:558753656
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : History
ISBN : 131456885X
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Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101013458979
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798573327334
From The Watcher by the Threshold: I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter's fire, and I, the most prosaic of men, was credited with a fancy. . . . One man only heard me with true appreciation; but he was a wandering spirit with an ear open to marvels, and I hesitate to advance his security. He received it simply, saying that God was great, and I cannot improve upon his comment. Thus begins Buchan's unnerving tale of terror at the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Buchan - a man more remembered for mysteries and war stories - was a real hand with horror, and this 1902 compilation displays his facility nicely.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1053506750
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798644861323
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Author : John John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152060288X
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan This is the first ever complete collection of all John Buchan's 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.From "The Watcher by the Threshold": I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter's fire, and I, the most prosaic of men, was credited with a fancy. One man only heard me with true appreciation; but he was a wandering spirit with an ear open to marvels, and I hesitate to advance his security. He received it simply, saying that God was great, and I cannot improve upon his comment. Thus begins Buchan's unnerving tale of terror at the edge of the Scottish highlands. Buchan -- a man more remembered for mysteries and war stories -- was a real hand with horror, and this 1902 compilation displays his facility nicely.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788075833525
"The Grove of Ashtaroth" – a home in African wilderness with an ancient temple in its vicinity affects its new occupant. "No-man's-land" – A beast is at large in wilderness, hunting cattle and murdering unsuspecting people, what happens when a man comes face-to-face with it? "The Watcher by the Threshold" – An unmentionable creature piggybacks a man from his near-death experience . . . "Space" – A brilliant mathematician theorizes the existence of a new dimension but it is not uninhabited, something lurks there . . . "The Keeper of Cademuir" – a man is trapped in a trap laid by poachers and lies dying until. . "A Journey of Little Profit" – a shepherd is transformed into a nice person but why and how? "The Outgoing of the Tide" – jealousy and witchcraft never go well for anyone "Basilissa" – a curious nightmare leading to a deadly countdown or is it a warning? "Fullcircle" – a haunted new-house and a doomed family . . . John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0365358738
Excerpt from The Watcher by the Threshold: And Other Tales Northern Antiquities. So much for Oxford. My vacations had been spent mainly in the N orth - in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isles, in Scandinavia and Iceland, once even in the far limits of Finland. I was a keen Sportsman of a sort, an old-experienced fisher, a fair shot with gun and rifle, and in my hillcraft I' might well stand comparison with most men. April has ever seemed to me the finest season of the year even in our cold northern altitudes, and the memory of many bright Aprils had brought me up from the South on the night before to Aller foot, whence a dogcart had taken me up Glen Aller to the inn at Allermuir; and now the same desire had set me on the heather with my face to the cold brown hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798741837085
From The Watcher by the Threshold: I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter's fire, and I, the most prosaic of men, was credited with a fancy. . . . One man only heard me with true appreciation; but he was a wandering spirit with an ear open to marvels, and I hesitate to advance his security. He received it simply, saying that God was great, and I cannot improve upon his comment. Thus begins Buchan's unnerving tale of terror at the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Buchan - a man more remembered for mysteries and war stories - was a real hand with horror, and this 1902 compilation displays his facility nicely.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436519756
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Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798632429597
A collection of stories from John Buchan, author of 'The Thirty-nine Steps'. The pagan themes and classic adventures are set in Scottish countryside. In 'The Far Islands' and 'Fountainblue' Buchan describes the call to adventure as described by a small boy.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1795654740
From The Watcher by the Threshold: I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter's fire, and I, the most prosaic of men, was credited with a fancy. . . . One man only heard me with true appreciation; but he was a wandering spirit with an ear open to marvels, and I hesitate to advance his security. He received it simply, saying that God was great, and I cannot improve upon his comment. Thus begins Buchan's unnerving tale of terror at the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Buchan - a man more remembered for mysteries and war stories - was a real hand with horror, and this 1902 compilation displays his facility nicely.....John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940.Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom.Early life and educationBuchan was born in Perth, Scotland, the first child of John Buchan-a Free Church of Scotland minister-and Helen Jane Buchan. He was brought up in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and spent many summer holidays with his maternal grandparents in Broughton in the Scottish Borders. There he developed a love for walking and for the local scenery and wildlife, both of which are often featured in his novels. The protagonist in several of his books is Sir Edward Leithen, whose name is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed.Buchan attended Hutchesons' Grammar School and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Glasgow at age 17, where he studied classics, wrote poetry, and became a published author. He moved on to study Literae Humaniores (the Classics) at Brasenose College, Oxford with a junior William Hulme scholarship in 1895, where his friends included Hilaire Belloc, Raymond Asquith, and Aubrey Herbert. Buchan won the Stanhope essay prize in 1897 and the Newdigate Prize for poetry the following year; he also was elected as the president of the Oxford Union and had six of his works published.Buchan had his first portrait painted in 1900 by a young Sholto Johnstone Douglas at around the time of his graduation from Oxford