The Island of Sheep (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

John Buchan

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9781853262760: The Island of Sheep (Wordsworth Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1853262765 ISBN 13: 9781853262760

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995

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In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villains.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

`rejoice in the pre-war prose ... and in Buchan's beautifully observed landscapes'
The Sunday Telegraph

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