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John Buchan (1) (1875–1940)

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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

Greenmantle (1916) 1,398 copias
Mr. Standfast (1919) 646 copias
Prester John (1910) 587 copias
The Three Hostages (1924) 557 copias
The Island of Sheep (1936) 480 copias
Huntingtower (1922) 378 copias
John Macnab (1925) 374 copias
Witch Wood (1927) 270 copias
Sick Heart River (1941) 219 copias
The House of the Four Winds (1925) 209 copias
Castle Gay (1925) 197 copias
Memory Hold-the-Door (1940) 195 copias
The Dancing Floor (1926) 191 copias
The Free Fishers (1934) 179 copias
The Gap in the Curtain (1932) 168 copias
The Courts of the Morning (1929) 152 copias
The Power-House (1913) 150 copias
The Blanket of the Dark (1931) 148 copias
Midwinter (1923) 142 copias
The Path of the King (1921) 126 copias
Salute to Adventurers (1915) 114 copias
The Runagates Club (1928) 113 copias
Stories (2008) 93 copias
Oliver Cromwell (1934) 92 copias
John Burnet of Barns (1898) 91 copias
A Prince of the Captivity (1933) 89 copias
Montrose (1928) 81 copias
Sir Walter Scott (1925) 79 copias
Augustus (1939) 65 copias
The Half-Hearted (1900) 58 copias
The Magic Walking Stick (1914) 46 copias
The Massacre of Glencoe (1985) 42 copias
A Lost Lady of Old Years (1899) 41 copias
The King's grace, 1910-1935 (1935) 38 copias
Julius Caesar (1930) 38 copias
La Batalla del Somme (2010) 31 copias
The Long Traverse (1941) 30 copias
The 39 Steps [2008 TV Movie] (2008) — Novel — 25 copias
Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895) 24 copias
Supernatural Tales (1997) 23 copias
Homilies and Recreations (1926) 19 copias
The Thirty Nine Steps [1978 film] (1978) — Novel — 19 copias
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906) 19 copias
The Far Islands (1984) 17 copias
Sir Walter Raleigh (1911) 17 copias
The Clearing House (1946) 15 copias
Lord Minto, A Memoir (1924) 11 copias
The Marquis of Montrose (1996) 11 copias
The African Colony (1903) 11 copias
Scholar Gipsies (1896) 10 copias
Poems Scots and English (1917) 9 copias
Men and Deeds (1935) 8 copias
Canadian Occasions (1940) 8 copias
Modern Short Stories (1926) — Editor — 7 copias
Suuren käärmeen luola (1962) 6 copias
The Wind in the Portico (2020) 6 copias
Episodes of the Great War (1936) 5 copias
Gordon at Khartoum (2001) 5 copias
The Grove Of Ashtaroth (2018) 5 copias
Sinisen antiloopin lähde (1962) 5 copias
Fullcircle (2013) 4 copias
No-man's-land (2018) 4 copias
Brasenose College (1898) 4 copias
Skule Skerry 4 copias
MUSA PISCATRIX [The Bodley Anthologies]. (1896) — Editor — 4 copias
Basilissa (1994) 3 copias
The Battle Of Jutland (2013) 3 copias
Spies and Secret Agents (1993) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Divus Johnston (2014) 2 copias
Space (1990) 2 copias
The Outgoing Of The Tide (2011) 2 copias
Fountainblue 2 copias
Great Occasions (1941) 1 copia
John Buchan on Angling (2016) 1 copia
The Pilgrim Fathers (2012) 1 copia
English Literature, Vols. 1-2 — Introducción — 1 copia
Short Stories 1 copia

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Annual Macabre 1998 (1998) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
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Best Secret Service Stories (1960) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
A Collection of Action Stories (1988) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
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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)

Reseñas

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)
 
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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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