The Leithen Stories by John Buchan

The Leithen Stories by John Buchan

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

Buchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions, and
that your life is what you make of itPerhaps his peculiarly Scottish
combination of Romanticism and Calvinism - daring living and high
thinking - is due to return to fashion.

* * The Independent Magazine * *

He explores different themes ... He expounds theories through a wide
variety of subjects but all the while there is the basic ingredient of
telling a good story so the reader can enjoy their sheer entertainment
value.

* * Yorkshire Gazette and Herald * *

John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of
adventure in familiar suroundings happening to unadventurous men.

* * Graham Greene * *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780862419950
ISBN 10	0862419956
Title	The Leithen Stories
Author	John Buchan
Series	Canongate Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2000-05-25
Number of pages	720
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