Leithen Stories (Canongate Classics)

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

By (author) : John Buchan
Introduction by : Christopher Harvie
Publishers: Canongate Books
Print Format: Paperback

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Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to the
author's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and
MP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of
respectability.

In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle;

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John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of
adventure in familiar suroundings happening to unadventurous men.

Title	Leithen Stories (Canongate Classics)
By (author)	John Buchan
Introduction by	Christopher Harvie
Publishers	Canongate Books
Language of text	English
ISBN	9780862419950
Product Form	Paperback
Height	196 mm
Width	126 mm
Thickness	31 mm
Unit weight	473 gr