John Buchan

Broschiertes Buch

The Leithen Stories: The Power-House: John Macnab: The Dancing Floor: Sick Heart River

Beschreibung

Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to theauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer andMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium ofrespectability. In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle;

Autor

John Buchan's adventure stories, The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, have long held a place as classics of their kind. Only now is his historical fiction, which he himself regarded as his finest work, receiving its full due.

Produktdetails

• Canongate Classics
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 126mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780862419950
• ISBN-10: 0862419956
• Artikelnr.: 22070750