The Watcher by the Threshold
Shorter Scottish Fiction
Published on 1. May 2009
448 pages
978-1-84767-572-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan's shorter 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.
Reviews / Votes
The short story is the real form. -- John Buchan John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar surroundings happening to unadventurous men. -- Graham GreeneMore details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,73 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-572-9 (9781847675729)
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01/2001
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Persons
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.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- On Cademuir Hill
- Afternoon
- An Individualist
- A Journey Of Little Profit
- Politics And The May-Fly
- The Herd Of Standlan
- Streams Of Water In The South
- At The Article Of Death
- At The Rising Of The Waters
- Prester John
- The Moor Song
- A Reputation
- Comedy In The Full Moon
- The Earlier Affection
- The Black Fishers
- Summer Weather
- The Oasis In The Snow
- Gideon Scott
- No-Man's Land
- The Far Islands
- The Watcher By The Threshold
- Fountainblue
- The Outgoing Of The Tide
- The Knees Of The Gods
- The Green Glen
- The Riding Of Ninemileburn
- Watches Of The Night
- The Frying-Pan And The Fire
- Skule Skerry
- Glossary
- Selected John Buchan Reading List
- About the Author
- Copyright
