In another,
The Runagates Club (1928), he employed the framework of stories told at a dining club. In each of his collections he gathered stories on common themes or with common settings.
Born in Perth, Scotland, on 26 August 1875, Buchan was a son of John Buchan, a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, and Helen Masterson Buchan. The family moved the following year to Fife, where he grew up along the coast. The woods in which he played with his sister, Anna, and his brothers, Walter and William, became the setting for imaginary adventures based partly on family stories and history and partly on the Bible and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684). In the border country near Peebles and Broughton, where his mother's family lived and where he spent his summers, he found new vistas for his imagination in reenacting stories from Scottish history. As he grew older and explored the countryside, first on foot and then by bicycle, he added to a store of places where his fictional characters would live, fight, and die.
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