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A Buchan Companion: A Guide to the Novels and Short Stories.
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19941101
Author:Kernohan, R.D.
John Buchan's novels are still republished and read more than fifty years after his death. Paul Webb's guide to the 'shockers', romances, and short stories will help readers who have stumbled on the more popular books to explore others, and it will please devotees who zealously scan every line that Buchan wrote for fun and money.
But, to adapt Evelyn Waugh's phrase: up to a point, Lord Clanroyden. Those for whom Buchan falls just short of Holy Writ and the Pilgrim's Progress will have three reservations.
The first is that Buchan was an earnest man and serious writer whose ...
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