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John Burnet of Barns by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
"John Burnet of Barns" was Buchan's first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. It tells the story of two young noblemen - John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing, ruthless soldier. Their lifelong ...Show more
John MacNab by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, "John MacNab"; three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a giv ...Show more
MAGIC WALKING STICK by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Fiction
This charming one-of-a-kind classic is a beautiful compilation which includes the timeless story, The Magic Walking-Stick and several additional Arabian Nights classic stories including; The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Story of the Magic Horse, The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie and more.
Midwinter by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west.He soon begins to suspect someone close to the Prince is passing information to the Government, but just as he closes in on the tr ...Show more
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
When Richard Hannay, the hero of "The Thirty-nine Steps", is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders ...Show more
Prester John by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. The setting is contemporaneous with publication: the beginning of the twentieth cen ...Show more
Prester John by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval k ...Show more
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Perhaps more than any other book "The Thirty-Nine Steps" has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The main charac ...Show more