PART I
CHAPTER ONE
The Wicket-Gate
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the
window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local
motor-car following the course of a trout stream in
a shallo...
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Many contemporaries knew John Buchan, or Tweedsmuir, only as journalist and statesman. Some readers knew him as historian and biographer. But most readers in both England and America knew Buchan best ...
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Despite his achievements as historian, biographer, historical novelist, and statesman, it is for his thrillers that John Buchan has found an enduring reputation in popular letters. The "Buchan touch" ...
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Historian, biographer, historical novelist, and statesman, John Buchan found an enduring reputation in popular fiction. The "Buchan touch" is a term applied to fiction that shares his appeal: romantic...
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Mr. Standfast
John Buchan