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The Island of Sheep (1936), John Buchan's last thriller, features the return of Richard Hannay, the hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, and The Three Hostages. A long-lost comrade, a key to buried treasure, and a blood-feud jolt Hannay out of his comfortable but boring retirement. Remembering an oath sworn long ago under an African moon, he agrees to help the son of a former acquaintance seek refuge from a diabolical conspiracy. The action moves from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island of Sheep in the remote Norlands, where Hannay and his friends turn at last to confront the villains. Memorable for its vivid evocations of place, the novel reflects upon its own position at the end of Buchan's career, and at the end of a modern Scottish tradition of adventure romances.
This is the first critical edition of The Island of Sheep, with extensive notes and an introduction exploring the novel's themes and preoccupations in relation to Buchan's previous works.
This is the first critical edition of The Island of Sheep, with extensive notes and an introduction exploring the novel's themes and preoccupations in relation to Buchan's previous works.
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Ian Duncan is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (Cambridge UP 1992).
John Buchan was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875 and called to the Bar in 1901, combining law with a steady output of books, reviews and articles and becoming a partner in the publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons. In the First World War he was a correspondent for The Times on the Western Front and in
Intelligence and propaganda for the Foreign Office and War Office, then Director of the Department of Information. He was a biographer of Montrose, Walter Scott, Cromwell and others, became MP for the Scottish Universities in 1927 and ended his life as Governor-General of Canada.
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John Buchan was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875 and called to the Bar in 1901, combining law with a steady output of books, reviews and articles and becoming a partner in the publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons. In the First World War he was a correspondent for The Times on the Western Front and in
Intelligence and propaganda for the Foreign Office and War Office, then Director of the Department of Information. He was a biographer of Montrose, Walter Scott, Cromwell and others, became MP for the Scottish Universities in 1927 and ended his life as Governor-General of Canada.
`rejoice in the pre-war prose ... and in Buchan's beautifully observed landscapes'
The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherOxford Univ Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0192824333
- ISBN 13 9780192824332
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- Number of pages268
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