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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av John Buchan
The Leithen Stories: The Power-House, John Macnab, the Dancing Floor, Sick Heart River (2000) 34 exemplar
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn: "Huntingtower", "Castle Gay", "House of the Four Winds" (1937) 32 exemplar
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (2009) 31 exemplar
Four Tales: The Thirty-Nine Steps; The Power-House; The Watcher by the Threshold; The Moon Endureth (1936) 23 exemplar
JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works… (2016) 12 exemplar
World War I - 9 Book Collection: Nelson's History of the War, The Battle of Jutland & The Battle of the Somme:… (2016) 12 exemplar
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures (2007) 8 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War Volume XII : The Retreat from Bagdad, the Evacuation of Gallipoli, and the Derby Report (1917) 6 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War IV : The Great Struggle in West Flanders, the Two Attacks on Warsaw, and the Fighting at… (2005) 5 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War Volume XVIII : From the German Overtures for Peace to the American Declaration of War (1918) 5 exemplar
The causal and the casual in history 4 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War (Volume 1) 4 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 5) 4 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War XVII : From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain (1918) 4 exemplar
Skule Skerry 4 exemplar
The Green Wildebeest 3 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 22) 3 exemplar
British Mystery Multipack Volume 11 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, A Stolen Letter,… (2016) 3 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 11) 3 exemplar
Comments and characters. (A selection of ... contributions to the Scottish review) (1941) 3 exemplar
Nelson's History of the War: (Volume 23) 3 exemplar
The Herd Of Stanlan 2 exemplar
A Journey Of Little Profit 2 exemplar
Complete Fictional Works of John Buchan 2 exemplar
Ship to Tarshish 2 exemplar
On Cademuir Hill [short story] 2 exemplar
The last crusade 2 exemplar
The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott 2 exemplar
The Collected Works of John Buchan (Illustrated): Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels, Mystery Novels, Historical… (2017) 2 exemplar
Great Hours in Sport 2 exemplar
The Kings of Orion 2 exemplar
Fountainblue 2 exemplar
The 39 Steps and Other Richard Hannay Adventures: A BBC Radio Collection of Full-Cast Dramatisations (2020) 2 exemplar
Nelson's history of the war 1 exemplar
John Buchan : 28 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Illustrated) : Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales,… (2017) 1 exemplar
An Article of Death 1 exemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 5 1 exemplar
Best of John Buchan Volume 1 1 exemplar
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott 1 exemplar
El collar de la reina de Saba 1 exemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 4 1 exemplar
The Rising of the Waters 1 exemplar
The Adventures by John Buchan. Book 3 1 exemplar
Streams of Water in the South [short story] 1 exemplar
English Literature, Vols. 1-2 — Inledning — 1 exemplar
The Oasis In The Snow [short story] 1 exemplar
A Reputation [short story] 1 exemplar
At The Rising of the Waters [short story] 1 exemplar
Song of the Moor [short story] 1 exemplar
At The Article of Death [short story] 1 exemplar
An Individualist [short story] 1 exemplar
Afternoon [short story] 1 exemplar
Politics and the Mayfly [short story] 1 exemplar
A Captain of Salvation [short story] 1 exemplar
Comedy in the Full Moon [short story] 1 exemplar
The Lit Chamber [short story] 1 exemplar
Great Britain, Volume Two 1 exemplar
Great Britain, Volume One 1 exemplar
Italy (the nations of to-day a new history of the world) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon 1 exemplar
Short Stories 1 exemplar
The Far Islands [short story] 1 exemplar
Summer Weather [short story] 1 exemplar
The Shut Door [short story] 1 exemplar
The Best Works of John Buchan 1 exemplar
Ho! The Merry Masons [short story] 1 exemplar
Dr Lartius [short story] 1 exemplar
Human Quarry [short story] 1 exemplar
Sing a Song of Sixpence [short story] 1 exemplar
The Loathly Opposite [short story] 1 exemplar
Tendebant Manus [short story] 1 exemplar
The Post [short story] 1 exemplar
Nemesis [short story] 1 exemplar
Watches of the Night [short story] 1 exemplar
The Black Fishers [short story] 1 exemplar
The King of Ypres [short story] 1 exemplar
The Riding of Ninemileburn [short story] 1 exemplar
The Green Glen [short story] 1 exemplar
The Lemnian [short story] 1 exemplar
A Lucid Interval [short story] 1 exemplar
The Company of the Marjolaine [short story] 1 exemplar
The Knees of the Gods [short story] 1 exemplar
The Watcher By The Threshold [short story] 1 exemplar
Gideon Scott [short story] 1 exemplar
The Earlier Affection [short story] 1 exemplar
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Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling (1948) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 49 exemplar
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
Dangerous Dimensions : Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Arctic Journeys: The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition (1936) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 5 exemplar
The Pirate of the Round Pond and Other Strange Adventure Stories (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Fantastic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Spionhistorier fra hele verden — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels: Portrait of Jennie; Jamaica Inn; The Thirty-Nine Steps; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Rosemary — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa (Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in… (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Tweedsmuir, Lord
Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron - Födelsedag
- 1875-08-26
- Avled
- 1940-02-11
- Begravningsplats
- Elsfield, Oxfordshire, UK
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- Scotland, UK
- Födelseort
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
- Dödsort
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Fife, Scotland, UK
South Africa
Oxford, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (visa alla 7)
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Utbildning
- University of Glasgow (classics)
Oxford University (Brasenose College) (Literae Humaniores) - Yrken
- writer
journalist
military officer
politician
MP (Scottish Universities)
governor-general (Canada) (visa alla 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 och utmärkelser
- 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 (visa alla 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.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
'The Grove of Ashtaroth' by John Buchan (1912?) i Gothic Literature (mars 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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