The Leithen Stories - The Power-House: John Macnab: The Dancing Floor: Sick Heart River

John Buchan's adventure stories, The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, have long held a place as classics of their kind. Only now is his historical fiction, which he himself regarded as his finest work, receiving its full due.

About the author

John Buchan's adventure stories, The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, have long held a place as classics of their kind. Only now is his historical fiction, which he himself regarded as his finest work, receiving its full due.

Summary

Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to theauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer andMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium ofrespectability. In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle;

Product details

• Authors: John Buchan, Buchan John
• Assisted by: Christopher Harvie (Introduction), Harvie Christopher (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2000
• EAN: 9780862419950
• ISBN: 978-0-86241-995-0
• No. of pages: 720
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 473 g
• Series: Canongate Classics; Canongate Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary