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John Buchan, 1º Barão Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC ( 26 de agosto de 1875 – 11 de fevereiro de 1940 ), foi um romancista escocês, mais conhecido pela seu romance The Thirty-Nine Steps, e um político unionista que serviu como Governador-geral do Canadá .
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL ( / ˈbʌxən /; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation . As a youth, Buchan began writing poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, publishing his first ...
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor.Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of Information—reporting directly to prime minister David Lloyd George—during the First World War and a Unionist MP who served as Governor ...
John Buchan, 1º Barão Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC, foi um romancista escocês, mais conhecido pela seu romance The Thirty-Nine Steps, e um político unionista que serviu como Governador-geral do Canadá.
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year.
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay.It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.
Witch Wood. Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan that critics have called his masterpiece. The book is set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and combines the author's interests in landscape, 17th century Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland. [2] A significant portion of the dialogue is in Scots .
