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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan

Autor Ursula Buchan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2020
John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to 'JB'. He wrote more than a hundred books - fiction and non-fiction - and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul - given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved Governor-General of Canada.His teenage years in Glasgow's Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, fur-trappers and prime ministers. His improbable marriage to a member of the aristocratic Grosvenor family means that this account of his life contains, at its heart, an enduring love story.Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography. With perception, style, wit and a penetratingly clear eye, she brings vividly to life this remarkable man and his times.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408870822
ISBN-10: 1408870827
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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The Thirty-Nine Steps has become an enduring international cultural icon. The novel has never been out of print, it was adapted into a hugely successful film by Alfred Hitchcock, and the musical (Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps) has played to audiences all over the world, including on Broadway where it won two Tony awards

Notă biografică

Ursula Buchan studied modern history at New Hall, Cambridge, and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She is an award-winning journalist and author, having written eighteen books and contributed regularly to the Spectator, Observer, Independent, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph and The Garden. She is a daughter of John Buchan's second son, William.

Recenzii

[An] outstanding biography ... Though factual, it reads like a big, rambling Victorian novel, and takes you, as novels do, into other people's lives
Page-turning, buccaneering stuff
Apart from Buchan's relentless work ethic, what shines forth from these pages is his generosity of spirit . Ursula Buchan shows a similar generosity of spirit in this wonderfully fluent biography
Excellent . [Ursula Buchan] gives us a strong sense of both the man and his milieu
John Buchan was a writer of considerable significance but he was also a man who led a remarkable public life. This magnificent biography leads us through that life with great style and understanding
Drawing on recently discovered family documents, this fascinating biography grants us the fullest picture of Buchan and his public and private life that we have ever had. Perhaps it will inspire some overdue screen adaptations of the 'rollicking adventure stories' of this most visual of novelists
The great strength of this book is to make Buchan not just the writer of "shockers", but a man whose influence helped change government policy . Ursula Buchan has done an admirable piece of work . She rightly puts his faith at the centre of the book and this lays a line towards a reimagination of Buchan
Buchan's thrillers exploited contemporary events (and anxieties) which made them extensions of his political life. Both are integral to this excellent book in which Ursula Buchan has balanced her grandfather's public and literary achievements with his family life and internal tensions. He emerges as a thoroughly decent man and she as a brilliant biographer
[An] exemplary, diligent biography