Huntingtower - John Buchan - Books - - 9798685425249 - January 23, 2021
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Huntingtower

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Book Excerpt: ...character or for their historical pageantry, but because they gave him material wherewith to construct fantastic journeys. It was the same with Dickens. A lit tavern, a stage-coach, post-horses, the clack of hoofs on a frosty road, went to his head like wine. He was a Jacobite not because he had any views on Divine Right, but because he had always before his eyes a picture of a knot of adventurers in cloaks, new landed from France among the western heather. On this select basis he had built up his small library--Defoe, Hakluyt, Hazlitt and the essayists, Boswell, some indifferent romances, and a shelf of spirited poetry. His tastes became known, and he acquired a reputation for a scholarly habit. He was president of the Literary Society of the Guthrie Memorial Kirk, and read to its members a variety of papers full of a gusto which rarely became critical. He had been three times chairman at Burns Anniversary dinners, and had delivered orations in eulogy of the national Bard; not because he greatly admi...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 23, 2021
ISBN13 9798685425249
Pages 202
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   276 g
Language English  

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