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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Buchan, Ursula
Titre(s) : Beyond the thirty-nine steps [Texte imprimé] : a life of John Buchan / Ursula Buchan
Publication : London : Bloomsbury publishing, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (492 p. - 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past
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
Sujet(s) : Buchan, John (1875-1940)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1408870819. - ISBN 9781408870815 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45785413p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45785413
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Childhood and Youth, 1875 ; 1895 ; Oxford, 1895 ; 1899 ; The Bar, Journalism
and South Africa, 1900 ; 1903 ; London, Courtship and Marriage, 1903 ; 1907 ;
London and Edinburgh, 1907 ; 1914 ; The Great War, 1914 ; 1918 ; Elsfield, 1919
; 1927 ; Elsfield and London, 1927 ; 1935 ; Canada, 1935 ; 1937 ; Canada, 1938
; 1940.
