The Collected Works of John Buchan E-Book

John Buchan

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 5899 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Thirty-Nine Steps • Greenmantle • The World's Greatest Books • Mr. Standfast • Prester John • Poems of American Patriotism • HuntingtowerJohn Buchan • The Path of the King • My First Book:Various • The Half-Hearted • The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies • Salute to Adventurers • Sir Quixote of the Moors • John Burnet of Barns: A Romance • Greenmantle • The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

CHAPTER ONE

The Man Who Died

CHAPTER TWO

The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels

CHAPTER THREE

The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper

CHAPTER FOUR

The Adventure of the Radical Candidate

CHAPTER FIVE

The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman

CHAPTER SIX

The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Dry-Fly Fisherman

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Coming of the Black Stone

CHAPTER NINE

The Thirty-Nine Steps

CHAPTER TEN

Various Parties Converging on the Sea

MR STANDFAST

CONTENTS

PART I

PART II

NOTE

PART I

CHAPTER ONE

The Wicket-Gate

CHAPTER TWO

'The Village Named Morality'

CHAPTER THREE

The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic

CHAPTER FOUR

Andrew Amos

CHAPTER FIVE

Various Doings in the West

CHAPTER SIX

The Skirts of the Coolin

CHAPTER SEVEN

I Hear of the Wild Birds

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Adventures of a Bagman

CHAPTER NINE

I Take the Wings of a Dove

CHAPTER TEN

The Advantages of an Air Raid

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Valley of Humiliation

PART II

CHAPTER TWELVE

I Become a Combatant Once More

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

St Anton

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

I Lie on a Hard Bed

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The Col of the Swallows

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The Underground Railway

CHAPTER NINETEEN

The Cage of the Wild Birds

CHAPTER TWENTY

The Storm Breaks in the West

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

How an Exile Returned to His Own People

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast

GREENMANTLE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

A Mission is Proposed

CHAPTER TWO

The Gathering of the Missionaries

CHAPTER THREE

Peter Pienaar

CHAPTER FOUR

Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose

CHAPTER FIVE

Further Adventures of the Same

CHAPTER SIX

The Indiscretions of the Same

CHAPTER SEVEN

Christmastide

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Essen Barges

CHAPTER NINE

The Return of the Straggler

CHAPTER TEN

The Garden-House of Suliman the Red

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Companions of the Rosy Hours

CHAPTER TWELVE

Four Missionaries See Light in their Mission

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

I Move in Good Society

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Lady of the Mantilla

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

An Embarrassed Toilet

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The Battered Caravanserai

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Trouble by The Waters of Babylon

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Sparrows on the Housetops

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWENTY

Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

The Little Hill

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

The Guns of the North

Huntingtower

HUNTINGTOWER

CONTENTS

HUNTINGTOWER

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

PRESTER JOHN

TO LIONEL PHILLIPS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE MAN ON THE KIRKCAPLE SHORE

CHAPTER II

FURTH! FORTUNE!

CHAPTER III

BLAAUWILDEBEESTEFONTEIN

CHAPTER IV

MY JOURNEY TO THE WINTER-VELD

CHAPTER V

MR WARDLAW HAS A PREMONITION

CHAPTER VI

THE DRUMS BEAT AT SUNSET

CHAPTER VII

CAPTAIN ARCOLL TELLS A TALE

CHAPTER VIII

I FALL IN AGAIN WITH THE REVEREND JOHN LAPUTA

CHAPTER IX

THE STORE AT UMVELOS'

CHAPTER X

I GO TREASURE-HUNTING

CHAPTER XI

THE CAVE OF THE ROOIRAND

CHAPTER XII

CAPTAIN ARCOLL SENDS A MESSAGE

CHAPTER XIII

THE DRIFT OF THE LETABA

CHAPTER XIV

I CARRY THE COLLAR OF PRESTER JOHN

CHAPTER XV

MORNING IN THE BERG

CHAPTER XVI

INANDA'S KRAAL

CHAPTER XVII

A DEAL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XVIII

HOW A MAN MAY SOMETIMES PUT HIS TRUST IN A HORSE

CHAPTER XIX

ARCOLL'S SHEPHERDING

CHAPTER XX

MY LAST SIGHT OF THE REVEREND JOHN LAPUTA

CHAPTER XXI

I CLIMB THE CRAGS A SECOND TIME

CHAPTER XXII

A GREAT PERIL AND A GREAT SALVATION

CHAPTER XXIII

MY UNCLE'S GIFT IS MANY TIMES MULTIPLIED

The Moon Endureth

Tales and Fancies

Contents

FROM THE PENTLANDS LOOKING NORTH AND SOUTH

I

THE COMPANY OF THE MARJOLAINE

II

III

AVIGNON

1759

II

A LUCID INTERVAL

II

III

IV

V

THE SHORTER CATECHISM

(Revised Version)

III

THE LEMNIAN

ATTA'S SONG

(Roughly translated.)

IV

SPACE

STOCKS AND STONES

V

STREAMS OF WATER IN THE SOUTH

II

III

IV

THE GIPSY'S SONG TO THE LADY CASSILIS

VI

THE GROVE OF ASHTAROTH

II

III

IV

WOOD MAGIC

(9TH CENTURY.)

VII

THE RIDING OF NINEMILEBURN

PLAIN FOLK

VIII

THE KINGS OF ORION

BABYLON

(The Song of NEHEMIAH'S Workmen)

X

THE RIME OF TRUE THOMAS

THE TALE OF THE RESPECTABLE WHAUP AND THE GREAT GODLY MAN

THE PATH OF THE KING

Contents

THE PATH OF THE KING

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I. HIGHTOWN UNDER SUNFELL

CHAPTER 2. THE ENGLISHMAN

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

CHAPTER 3. THE WIFE OF FLANDERS

CHAPTER 4. EYES OF YOUTH

CHAPTER 5. THE MAID

CHAPTER 6. THE WOOD OF LIFE

CHAPTER 7. EAUCOURT BY THE WATERS

CHAPTER 8. THE HIDDEN CITY

CHAPTER 9. THE REGICIDE

CHAPTER 10. THE MARPLOT

CHAPTER 11. THE LIT CHAMBER

CHAPTER 12. IN THE DARK LAND

CHAPTER 13. THE LAST STAGE

CHAPTER 14. THE END OF THE ROAD

EPILOGUE

THE HALF-HEARTED

JOHN BUCHAN

NOTE

CONTENTS

THE HALF-HEARTED

PART I

CHAPTER I EVENING IN GLENAVELIN

CHAPTER II LADY MANORWATER’S GUESTS

CHAPTER III UPLAND WATERS

CHAPTER IV AFTERNOON IN A GARDEN

CHAPTER V A CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS

CHAPTER VI PASTORAL

I

II

III

IV

CHAPTER VII THE MAKERS OF EMPIRE

CHAPTER VIII MR. WRATISLAW’S ADVENT

CHAPTER IX THE EPISODES OF A DAY

CHAPTER X HOME TRUTHS

I

II

III

CHAPTER XI THE PRIDE BEFORE A FALL

CHAPTER XII PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY

CHAPTER XIII THE PLEASURES OF A CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER XIV A GENTLEMAN IN STRAITS

CHAPTER XV THE NEMESIS OF A COWARD

CHAPTER XVI A MOVEMENT OF THE POWERS

CHAPTER XVII THE BRINK OF THE RUBICON

CHAPTER XVIII THE FURTHER BRINK

CHAPTER XIX THE BRIDGE OF BROKEN HEARTS

PART II

CHAPTER XX THE EASTERN ROAD

CHAPTER XXI IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS

CHAPTER XXII THE OUTPOSTS

CHAPTER XXIII THE DINNER AT GALETTI’S

CHAPTER XXIV THE TACTICS OF A CHIEF

CHAPTER XXV MRS. LOGAN’S BALL

CHAPTER XXVI FRIEND TO FRIEND

CHAPTER XXVII THE ROAD TO FORZA

CHAPTER XXVIII THE HILL-FORT

CHAPTER XXIX THE WAY TO NAZRI

CHAPTER XXX EVENING IN THE HILLS

CHAPTER XXXI EVENTS SOUTH OF THE BORDER

CHAPTER XXXII THE BLESSING OF GAD

SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE HIGH MOORS.

CHAPTER II.

I FARE BADLY INDOORS.

CHAPTER III.

I FARE BADLY ABROAD.

CHAPTER IV.

OF MY COMING TO LINDEAN.

CHAPTER V.

I PLEDGE MY WORD.

CHAPTER VI.

IDLE DAYS.

CHAPTER VII.

A DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS.

CHAPTER VIII.

HOW I SET THE SIGNAL.

CHAPTER IX.

I COMMUNE WITH MYSELF.

CHAPTER X.

OF MY DEPARTURE.

John Burnet of Barns - A Romance

SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS

BY

JOHN BUCHAN

TO MAJOR-GENERAL THE HON. SIR REGINALD TALBOT, K.C.B.

CONTENTS.

I. THE SWEET-SINGERS II. OF A HIGH-HANDED LADY III. THE CANONGATE TOLBOOTH IV. OF A STAIRHEAD AND A SEA-CAPTAIN V. MY FIRST COMING TO VIRGINIA VI. TELLS OF MY EDUCATION VII. I BECOME AN UNPOPULAR CHARACTER VIII. RED RINGAN IX. VARIOUS DOINGS IN THE SAVANNAH X. I HEAR AN OLD SONG XI. GRAVITY OUT OF BED XII. A WORD AT THE HARBOUR-SIDE XIII. I STUMBLE INTO A GREAT FOLLY XIV. A WILD WAGER XV. I GATHER THE CLANS XVI. THE FORD OF THE RAPIDAN XVII. I RETRACE MY STEPS XVIII. OUR ADVENTURE RECEIVES A RECRUIT XIX. CLEARWATER GLEN XX. THE STOCKADE AMONG THE PINES XXI. A HAWK SCREAMS IN THE EVENING XXII. HOW A FOOL MUST GO HIS OWN ROAD XXIII. THE HORN OF DIARMAID SOUNDS XXIV. I SUFFER THE HEATHEN'S RAGE XXV. EVENTS ON THE HILL-SIDE XXVI. SHALAH XXVII. HOW I STROVE ALL NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL XXVIII. HOW THREE SOULS FOUND THEIR HERITAGE

SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS.

CHAPTER I.

THE SWEET-SINGERS.

CHAPTER II.

OF A HIGH-HANDED LADY.

CHAPTER III.

THE CANONGATE TOLBOOTH.

CHAPTER IV.

OF A STAIRHEAD AND A SEA-CAPTAIN.

CHAPTER V.

MY FIRST COMING TO VIRGINIA.

CHAPTER VI.

TELLS OF MY EDUCATION.

CHAPTER VII.

I BECOME AN UNPOPULAR CHARACTER.

CHAPTER VIII.

RED RINGAN.

CHAPTER IX.

VARIOUS DOINGS IN THE SAVANNAH.

CHAPTER X.

I HEAR AN OLD SONG.

CHAPTER XI.

GRAVITY OUT OF BED.

CHAPTER XII.

A WORD AT THE HARBOUR-SIDE.

CHAPTER XIII.

I STUMBLE INTO A GREAT FOLLY.

CHAPTER XIV.

A WILD WAGER.

CHAPTER XV.

I GATHER THE CLANS.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE FORD OF THE RAPIDAN.

CHAPTER XVII.

I RETRACE MY STEPS.

CHAPTER XVIII.

OUR ADVENTURE RECEIVES A RECRUIT.

CHAPTER XIX.

CLEARWATER GLEN.

Part of my discomfort was due to my bodily health. I had proudly thought myself seasoned by those hot Virginian summers, in which I had escaped all common ailments. But I had forgotten what old hunters had told me, that the hills will bring out a fever which is dormant in the plains. Anyhow, I now found that my head was dizzy and aching, and my limbs had a strange trembling. The fatigue of the past day had dragged me to the limits of my strength and made me an easy victim. My heart, too, was full of cares. The sight of Elspeth reminded me how heavy was my charge. 'Twas difficult enough to scout well in this tangled place, but, forbye my duty to the dominion, I had the business of taking one who was the light of my life into this dark land of bloody secrets.

CHAPTER XX.

THE STOCKADE AMONG THE PINES.

CHAPTER XXI.

A HAWK SCREAMS IN THE EVENING

CHAPTER XXII.

HOW A FOOL MUST GO HIS OWN ROAD.

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE HORN OF DIARMAID SOUNDS.

CHAPTER XXIV.

I SUFFER THE HEATHEN'S RAGE

CHAPTER XXV.

EVENTS ON THE HILL-SIDE.

CHAPTER XXVI.

SHALAH.

CHAPTER XXVII.

HOW I STROVE ALL NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

HOW THREE SOULS FOUND THEIR HERITAGE.

THE AFRICAN COLONY

JOHN BUCHAN

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY.

PART I. THE EARLIER MASTERS

CHAPTER I.

PRIMITIVE SOUTH AFRICA.

CHAPTER II.

THE GENTLEMEN-ADVENTURERS.

CHAPTER III.

THE GREAT TREK.

CHAPTER IV.

THE BOER IN SPORT.

CHAPTER V.

THE BOER IN ALL SERIOUSNESS.[10]

PART II. NOTES OF TRAVEL

CHAPTER VI.

EVENING ON THE HIGH VELD.

CHAPTER VII.

IN THE TRACKS OF WAR.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE WOOD BUSH.

CHAPTER IX.

ON THE EASTERN VELD.

CHAPTER X.

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD.

CHAPTER XI.

THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICAN SPORT.

PART III. THE POLITICAL PROBLEM

CHAPTER XII.

THE ECONOMIC FACTOR.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE LAND.

I.

II.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE SUBJECT RACES.

CHAPTER XV.

JOHANNESBURG.

CHAPTER XVI.

CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE POLICY OF FEDERATION.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE ARMY AND SOUTH AFRICA.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE FUTURE OUTLOOK.

POEMS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

CHOSEN BY BRANDER MATTHEWS

AN EDITION REVISED AND EXTENDED

N.C. WYETH

TO THE MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT

PREFATORY NOTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOSTON

SICUT PATRIBUS, SIT DEUS NOBIS RALPH WALDO EMERSON

PAUL REVERE'S RIDE

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON

SIDNEY LANIER

HYMN

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

TICONDEROGA

V. B. WILSON

GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE AS SHE SAW IT FROM THE BELFRY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

WARREN'S ADDRESS

JOHN PIERPONT

THE OLD CONTINENTALS

NATHAN HALE

FRANCIS MILES FINCH

THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL

WILL CARLETON

MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH

WILLIAM COLLINS

SONG OF MARION'S MEN

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

TO THE MEMORY OF THE AMERICANS WHO FELL AT EUTAW

PHILIP FRENEAU

GEORGE WASHINGTON

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

PERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH

THE AMERICAN FLAG

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

OLD IRONSIDES

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

MONTEREY

CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN

THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD

THEODORE O'HARA

HOW OLD BROWN TOOK HARPER'S FERRY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

APOCALYPSE

RICHARD REALF

THE PICKET GUARD

ETHEL LYNN BEERS

THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

JULIA WARD HOWE

AT PORT ROYAL

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

SONG OF THE NEGRO BOATMEN

READY

PHOEBE CARY

"HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY"

BRET HAUTE

SONG OF THE SOLDIERS

CHARLES G. HALPINE

JONATHAN TO JOHN

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

THE CUMBERLAND

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

KEARNEY AT SEVEN PINES EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER

GEORGE H. BOKER

BARBARA FRIETCHIE

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

FREDERICKSBURG

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

MUSIC IN CAMP

JOHN R. THOMPSON

KEENAN'S CHARGE

GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP

THE BLACK REGIMENT

GEORGE H. BOKER

JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG

BRET HARTE

TWILIGHT ON SUMTER

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

THE BAY-FIGHT

HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL

SHERIDAN'S RIDE

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ

CRAVEN

HENRY NEWBOLT

SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA

SAMUEL H. M. BYERS

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

WALT WHITMAN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

FRANCIS MILES FINCH

AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE

ROBERT BRIDGES

GRANT

H. C. BUNNER

THE BURIAL OF SHERMAN

RICHARD WATSON GILDER

THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS

JOHN JEROME ROONEY

THE REGULAR ARMY MAN

JOSEPH C. LINCOLN

WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN

GUY WETMORE CARRYL

AD FINEM FIDELES

GUY WETMORE CARRYL

GROVER CLEVELAND

JOEL BENTON

ATOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND

ROBERT BRIDGES

FIFTY YEARS

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS

MARIE VAN VORST

I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH. . .

ALAN SEEGER

THE CHOICE

RUDYARD KIPLING

(THE AMERICAN SPIRIT SPEAKS)

ANNAPOLIS

WALDRON KINSOLVING POST

YANKS

JAMES W. FOLEY

ANY WOMAN TO A SOLDIER

GRACE ELLERY CHANNING

TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY

CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON

YOU AND YOU

EDITH WHARTON

TO THE AMERICAN PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR

WITH THE TIDE

EDITH WHARTON

AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME

HENRY VAN DYKE

THE UNKNOWN SOLIDER

ANGELA MORGAN

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

JOHN BUCHAN

TOTHOMAS ARTHUR NELSON(LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)

My Dear Tommy,

You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the 'dime novel' and which we know as the 'shocker'—the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.