John Buchan (1) (1875–1940)
Autor de 39 escalones; El viento en el pórtico
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Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Series
Obras de John Buchan
Treinta y nueve escalones = The Thirty-nine Steps / Alfred Hitchcock (1935) — original novel — 306 copias
The Leithen Stories: The Power-House, John Macnab, the Dancing Floor, Sick Heart River (2000) 34 copias
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn: "Huntingtower", "Castle Gay", "House of the Four Winds" (1937) 33 copias
Four Tales: The Thirty-Nine Steps; The Power-House; The Watcher by the Threshold; The Moon Endureth (1936) 23 copias
JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works… (2016) 12 copias
World War I - 9 Book Collection: Nelson's History of the War, The Battle of Jutland & The Battle of the Somme:… (2016) 12 copias
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures (2007) 8 copias
Nelson's History of the War Volume XII : The Retreat from Bagdad, the Evacuation of Gallipoli, and the Derby Report (1917) 6 copias
Nelson's History of the War IV : The Great Struggle in West Flanders, the Two Attacks on Warsaw, and the Fighting at… (2005) 5 copias
Nelson's History of the War Volume XVIII : From the German Overtures for Peace to the American Declaration of War (1918) 5 copias
The causal and the casual in history 4 copias
Nelson's History of the War XVII : From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain (1918) 4 copias
Skule Skerry 4 copias
The Green Wildebeest 3 copias
British Mystery Multipack Volume 11 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, A Stolen Letter,… (2016) 3 copias
The Herd Of Stanlan 2 copias
A Journey Of Little Profit 2 copias
Ship to Tarshish 2 copias
On Cademuir Hill [short story] 2 copias
The last crusade 2 copias
The Collected Works of John Buchan (Illustrated): Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels, Mystery Novels, Historical… (2017) 2 copias
Great Hours in Sport 2 copias
The Kings of Orion 2 copias
Fountainblue 2 copias
The 39 Steps and Other Richard Hannay Adventures: A BBC Radio Collection of Full-Cast Dramatisations (2020) 2 copias
Nelson's history of the war 1 copia
John Buchan : 28 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Illustrated) : Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales,… (2017) 1 copia
An Article of Death 1 copia
Best of John Buchan Volume 1 1 copia
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott 1 copia
El collar de la reina de Saba 1 copia
The Rising of the Waters 1 copia
English Literature, Vols. 1-2 — Introducción — 1 copia
A Reputation [short story] 1 copia
Song of the Moor [short story] 1 copia
An Individualist [short story] 1 copia
Afternoon [short story] 1 copia
The Lit Chamber [short story] 1 copia
Great Britain, Volume Two 1 copia
Great Britain, Volume One 1 copia
Italy (the nations of to-day a new history of the world) — Editor — 1 copia
Short Stories 1 copia
The Far Islands [short story] 1 copia
Summer Weather [short story] 1 copia
The Shut Door [short story] 1 copia
The Best Works of John Buchan 1 copia
Dr Lartius [short story] 1 copia
Human Quarry [short story] 1 copia
Tendebant Manus [short story] 1 copia
The Post [short story] 1 copia
Nemesis [short story] 1 copia
The Black Fishers [short story] 1 copia
The King of Ypres [short story] 1 copia
The Green Glen [short story] 1 copia
The Lemnian [short story] 1 copia
A Lucid Interval [short story] 1 copia
Gideon Scott [short story] 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling (1948) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 49 copias
To Catch a Spy: An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories (1964) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones; Contribuidor — 46 copias
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (2021) — Contribuidor — 32 copias
The Ghost of Fear and Others: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 1 (2012) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Arctic Journeys: The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition (1936) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 6 copias
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Fantastic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels: Portrait of Jennie; Jamaica Inn; The Thirty-Nine Steps; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2015) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 copia
Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa (Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in… (2013) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Rosemary — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Tweedsmuir, Lord
Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1875-08-26
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1940-02-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Elsfield, Oxfordshire, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- Scotland, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Perth, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Fife, Scotland, UK
South Africa
Oxford, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (mostrar todos 7)
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Educación
- University of Glasgow (classics)
Oxford University (Brasenose College) (Literae Humaniores) - Ocupaciones
- writer
journalist
military officer
politician
MP (Scottish Universities)
governor-general (Canada) (mostrar todos 8)
chancellor (Edinburgh University)
diplomat - Relaciones
- 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) - Organizaciones
- Scottish Historical Society
- Premios y honores
- 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 (mostrar todos 9)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1928)
Newdigate Prize (1898)
Stanhope Prize (1897) - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
'The Grove of Ashtaroth' by John Buchan (1912?) en Gothic Literature (marzo 2019)
The Will You Join Me Reading-experiment: Mr. Standfast by John Buchan en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (junio 2014)
Reseñas
(Naranja 92) Los 39 escalones por John Buchan
Los treinta y nueve escalones es, quizá, la novela más conocida de John Buchan. Publicada originalmente en el Blackwood’s Magazine en Agosto y Septiembre de 1915, fue publicada en forma de libro en Octubre de 1915. Es la primera de las cinco novelas protagonizadas por Richard Hannay, un hombre común transformado en héroe debido a las circunstancias. La novela transcurre en 1914, en una Europa cercada por la guerra. Richard Hannay acaba de regresar a Londres desde Rodesia a fin de comenzar una nueva vida, cuando su vecino Franklin P. Scudder le solicita ayuda. Scudder ha descubierto un complot alemán para asesinar al Primer Ministro griego y robar los planes de guerra británicos. Unos días más tarde Scudder es asesinado en el departamento de Hannay. Entonces la única forma de demostrar su inocencia, es que Hannay continúe con la investigación y desenmascare a los asesinos. Los treinta y nueve escalones es un thriller que entreteje de manera magistral los elementos de la conspiración política y del "man-on-the-run", es decir la lucha de un hombre común por demostrar su inocencia. Fue adaptada al cine en numerosas ocasiones, siendo quizá la versión más conocida la que dirigiera Alfred Hitchcock en 1935, protagonizada por Robert Donat y Madeleine Carroll.… (más)
Personajes variados y pintorescos, ambientada en la época de la 1º Guerra Mundial, el protagonista deberá escapar de la policía y de sus enemigos, ponerse a salvo y, sobre todo, desentrañar el misterio de la Piedra Negra y los 39 escalones.
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