The Island of Sheep (Aziloth Books) - Softcover

Buchan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907523707 ISBN 13: 9781907523700

Publisher: Aziloth Books, 2010

Synopsis

In this, the fifth and final Richard Hannay adventure, John Buchan makes his hero an older, wiser and more yielding character (the book was written a full decade after the fourth Hannay novel). The Island of Sheep is one of Buchan's least known works, but it continues his popular style of high adventure, wonderfully descriptive prose, erudite literary references and veiled subtexts. In reviewing the book, The Times Literary Supplement described Buchan as "evidently very much more than a yarn-spinner; and yet, as a yarn-spinner, so complete a master".

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Aziloth Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1907523707
• ISBN 13: 9781907523700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150