John Buchan (1) (1875–1940)
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John Buchan was born in Perth on 26th August, 1875. Educated at Glasgow University and Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1898 Buchan won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. Although trained as a lawyer, Buchan became private secretary to Lord Alfred Milner, high commissioner for South Africa. In 1903 he vis mere returned to England where he became a director of the publishing company, Thomas Nelson & Sons. In 1910 Buchan had his first novel, Prester John, published. In July 1914, Blackwood's Magazine began serializing Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps. With Britain on the verge of war, the nation was obsessed with German spy fever and its subject matter made it an immediate success. When it was published in book form, it sold over 25,000 copies in three months. Charles Masterman, the journalist, was appointed head of the government's War Propaganda Bureau. Masterman recruited Buchan and asked him to organise the publication of a history of the war in the form of a monthly magazine. Published by his own company, the first installment of the Nelson's History of the War appeared in February, 1915. A further twenty-three appeared at regular intervals throughout the war. In the spring of 1915, Buchan agreed to become one of the five journalists attached to the British Army. He was given responsibility for providing articles for The Times and the Daily News. In June 1916, Buchan was recruited by the British Army to draft communiqués for Sir Douglas Haig and other members of the General Headquarters Staff. Given the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps, Buchan was also provided with the documents needed to write the Nelson's History of the War. Buchan's History of the War provided the public with a completely false impression of what was going on the Western Front. Buchan also wrote a series of propoganda pamphlets published by Oxford University Press. In February, 1917, the government established a Department of Information. Given the rank Lieutenant Colonel, Buchan was put in charge on the department on an annual salary of £1,000 a year. After the war Buchan continued to write adventures stories such as Huntingtower, The Three Hostages, and Witch Wood (1927). He also became involved in politics and in 1927 was elected Conservative MP for the Scottish Universities. Buchan held the seat until granted the title Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935. Buchan was president of the Scottish History Society from 1929 to 1932, and wrote biographies of Montrose and Sir Walter Scott. Buchan also served as governor-general of Canada from 1935 to 1937 and chancellor of Edinburgh University from 1937 to 1940. John Buchan died on 12th February, 1940. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af John Buchan
The Leithen Stories: The Power-House, John Macnab, the Dancing Floor, Sick Heart River (2000) 34 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn: "Huntingtower", "Castle Gay", "House of the Four Winds" (1994) 33 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
The thirty-nine steps : Abbreviated and simplified for use in schools (1995) 33 eksemplarer, 2 anmeldelser
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (2009) 31 eksemplarer
Four Tales: The Thirty-Nine Steps; The Power-House; The Watcher by the Threshold; The Moon Endureth (2010) 24 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War IV : The Great Struggle in West Flanders, the Two Attacks on Warsaw, and the Fighting at… (2005) 23 eksemplarer
JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works… (2016) 13 eksemplarer
World War I - 9 Book Collection: Nelson's History of the War, The Battle of Jutland & The Battle of the Somme:… (2016) 12 eksemplarer
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures (2007) 8 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War Volume XII : The Retreat from Bagdad, the Evacuation of Gallipoli, and the Derby Report (2005) 6 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War (Volume 1) 5 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War Volume XVIII : From the German Overtures for Peace to the American Declaration of War (1918) 5 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 5) 5 eksemplarer
Skule Skerry 4 eksemplarer
The causal and the casual in history 4 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War XVII : From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain (1918) 4 eksemplarer
Comments and characters. (A selection of ... contributions to the Scottish review) (1977) 3 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 11) 3 eksemplarer
Two Ordeals of Democracy: A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni Memorial Foundation October 16, 1924 3 eksemplarer
The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott 3 eksemplarer
The Green Wildebeest 3 eksemplarer
British Mystery Multipack Volume 11 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, A Stolen Letter,… (2016) 3 eksemplarer
Penguin Audio-readers Level 3 " The Thirty-Nine Steps " (Penguin Audio-readers) (1998) 3 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 23) 3 eksemplarer
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 22) 3 eksemplarer
Complete Fictional Works of John Buchan 2 eksemplarer
Ship to Tarshish 2 eksemplarer
The last crusade 2 eksemplarer
Scottish Adventure Classics : John Burnet of Barns, Kidnapped, Sick Heart River (2014) 2 eksemplarer
The Island of Sheep (1919 book with dual writers) 2 eksemplarer
Sir Walter Scott : 1832-1932. : A centenary address 2 eksemplarer
The 39 Steps and Other Richard Hannay Adventures: A BBC Radio Collection of Full-Cast Dramatisations (2020) 2 eksemplarer
The Kings of Orion 2 eksemplarer
A Journey Of Little Profit 2 eksemplarer
The Herd Of Stanlan 2 eksemplarer
Fountainblue 2 eksemplarer
Great Hours in Sport 2 eksemplarer
On Cademuir Hill [short story] 2 eksemplarer
The Lit Chamber [short story] 1 eksemplar
An Article of Death 1 eksemplar
Best of John Buchan Volume 1 1 eksemplar
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott 1 eksemplar
The Rising of the Waters 1 eksemplar
A Lucid Interval [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 5 1 eksemplar
John Buchan's 1914: the World at War-The Naval Conflict & Global Campaigns of the Opening Year of the First World… (2014) 1 eksemplar
Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon 1 eksemplar
Italy (the nations of to-day a new history of the world) — Redaktør — 1 eksemplar
Great Britain, Volume One 1 eksemplar
Memory Hold-the-Door (Illustrated and annotated): John Buchan's autobiography and Pilgrim's Rest 1 eksemplar
John Buchan : 28 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Illustrated) : Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales,… (2017) 1 eksemplar
Nelson's history of the war 1 eksemplar
Great Britain, Volume Two 1 eksemplar
The Thirty-Nine Steps 1 eksemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 3 1 eksemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 4 1 eksemplar
English Literature, Vols. 1-2 — Introduktion — 1 eksemplar
Tendebant Manus [short story] 1 eksemplar
Streams of Water in the South [short story] 1 eksemplar
Ho! The Merry Masons [short story] 1 eksemplar
Dr Lartius [short story] 1 eksemplar
Human Quarry [short story] 1 eksemplar
Gideon Scott [short story] 1 eksemplar
Sing a Song of Sixpence [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Watcher By The Threshold [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Loathly Opposite [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Post [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Black Fishers [short story] 1 eksemplar
Nemesis [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Shut Door [short story] 1 eksemplar
Watches of the Night [short story] 1 eksemplar
The King of Ypres [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Knees of the Gods [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Company of the Marjolaine [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Riding of Ninemileburn [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Green Glen [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Earlier Affection [short story] 1 eksemplar
Summer Weather [short story] 1 eksemplar
At The Article of Death [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Lemnian [short story] 1 eksemplar
El collar de la reina de Saba 1 eksemplar
A Captain of Salvation [short story] 1 eksemplar
Politics and the Mayfly [short story] 1 eksemplar
Afternoon [short story] 1 eksemplar
An Individualist [short story] 1 eksemplar
Comedy in the Full Moon [short story] 1 eksemplar
Song of the Moor [short story] 1 eksemplar
At The Rising of the Waters [short story] 1 eksemplar
A Reputation [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Oasis In The Snow [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Best Works of John Buchan 1 eksemplar
The Far Islands [short story] 1 eksemplar
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- Andre navne
- Tweedsmuir, Lord
Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron - Fødselsdato
- 1875-08-26
- Dødsdag
- 1940-02-11
- Begravelsessted
- Elsfield, Oxfordshire, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- Scotland, UK
- Fødested
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
- Dødssted
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Bopæl
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Fife, Scotland, UK
South Africa
Oxford, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (vis alle 7)
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Uddannelse
- University of Glasgow (classics)
Oxford University (Brasenose College) (Literae Humaniores) - Erhverv
- writer
journalist
military officer
politician
MP (Scottish Universities)
governor-general (Canada) (vis alle 8)
chancellor (Edinburgh University)
diplomat - Relationer
- Buchan, Anna (sister)
Buchan, Susan Grosvenor (wife)
Buchan, James (grandson)
Buchan, John Norman Stuart (son)
Buchan, William James de l'Aigle (son)
Buchan, Ursula (granddaughter) - Organisationer
- Scottish Historical Society
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Privy Counsel of the United Kingdom (1937)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (Knight Grand Cross) (1935)
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1939)
Order of the Companions of Honour (1932)
Hereditary Peerage (1935)
Deputy Lieutenant (vis alle 9)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1928)
Newdigate Prize (1898)
Stanhope Prize (1897) - Kort biografi
- Buchan was the son of a Free Church minister, and grew up in Fife. He read classics at Glasgow University, winning a scholarship that enabled him to continue his studies at Oxford.
After graduating, he went to South Africa in the aftermath of the Boer War as aide to Alfred Milner. After an unsuccessful attempt to make his way as a lawyer, he went into publishing. In 1907, he linked himself to the English aristocracy by marrying the Duke of Westminster's cousin, Susan Grosvenor.
In the years immediately before World War I, he started to make a name for himself as a writer of adventure stories. T
During World War I he continued to write adventure stories in between propaganda work for the government and reporting the war for the Times.
After the war, Buchan settled down in a country house outside Oxford, later becoming a Unionist MP
In 1935 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada. At the time, this was an appointment that went with a peerage, so he became Baron Tweedsmuir. He died in 1940.
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Discussions
'The Grove of Ashtaroth' by John Buchan (1912?) i Gothic Literature (marts 2019)
The Will You Join Me Reading-experiment: Mr. Standfast by John Buchan i 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (juni 2014)
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Hannay tror på historien, og der går ikke mange dage, før det står fuldstændig klart, at der rent faktisk er ugler i mosen. Heldigvis er han i den grad en handlingens mand, så han tager med det samme opgaven på sig og stikker af. Der er nemlig tre uger til udåden skal finde sted, og først i sidste øjeblik kan der gøres noget effektivt for at forhindre det. Indtil da må han holde sig skjult for sine forfølgere, og det er ikke nemt. De er nemlig ekstremt dygtige til deres job. (De bliver så også hjulpet godt på vej af Hannays ubegribeligt tåbelige improvisationer, der konstant giver dem en ny mulighed for at opspore ham.)
Krigen var allerede brudt ud, da John Buchan skrev De 39 trin, men historien passer fint ind i den ændrede engelske opfattelse af Tyskland, som Paul Kennedy så fint har analyseret: fra velvillig neutralitet til åben rivalisering og fjendskab. Karamides-affæren er nemlig bare ét element i intrigen, der trækker indviklede spor i retning af Berlin. Emnemæssigt er der desuden mange paralleller til The Riddle of the Sands (1903) af Erskine Childers, og også i dette tilfælde er det op til en handlekraftig helt uden for systemet at klare ærterne.
Den lange jagt op til Skotland blev lidt trættende, men man lever med det, for Buchan formår at spidse plottet til mod slutningen. Det var simpelthen spændende, også selvom tiden for længst er blevet en anden.… (mere)
John Buchan lå syg, da første verdenskrig brød ud, og fortvivlet over ikke at kunne yde sit til kampen, skrev han hen over vinteren 1914-15 denne lille roman – og det er et andet punkt, hvor den adskiller sig fra sin moderne efterfølger. John Hannay er lige kommet hjem fra kolonierne, og han render rent ud sagt rundt og keder sig i London. Det ændrer sig brat, da hans overbo Scudders opsøger ham med en fantastisk historie om et forestående mord på den græske premierminister Karamides. Scudders har opsnuset sammenhængen, men desværre har bagmændene også luret ham.
Hannay tror på historien, og der går ikke mange dage, før det står fuldstændig klart, at der rent faktisk er ugler i mosen. Heldigvis er han i den grad en handlingens mand, så han tager med det samme opgaven på sig og stikker af. Der er nemlig tre uger til udåden skal finde sted, og først i sidste øjeblik kan der gøres noget effektivt for at forhindre det. Indtil da må han holde sig skjult for sine forfølgere, og det er ikke nemt. De er nemlig ekstremt dygtige til deres job. (De bliver så også hjulpet godt på vej af Hannays ubegribeligt tåbelige improvisationer, der konstant giver dem en ny mulighed for at opspore ham.)
Krigen var allerede brudt ud, da John Buchan skrev De 39 trin, men historien passer fint ind i den ændrede engelske opfattelse af Tyskland, som Paul Kennedy så fint har analyseret: fra velvillig neutralitet til åben rivalisering og fjendskab. Karamides-affæren er nemlig bare ét element i intrigen, der trækker indviklede spor i retning af Berlin. Emnemæssigt er der desuden mange paralleller til The Riddle of the Sands (1903) af Erskine Childers, og også i dette tilfælde er det op til en handlekraftig helt uden for systemet at klare ærterne.
Den lange jagt op til Skotland blev lidt trættende, men man lever med det, for Buchan formår at spidse plottet til mod slutningen. Det var simpelthen spændende, også selvom tiden for længst er blevet en anden.… (mere)
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