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John Buchan
John Buchan (1875-1940)

journalist, politician, military personnel, biographer, poet, barrister, diplomat

  • University of Oxford, University of Glasgow

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Mr. Standfast
The half-hearted
Greenmantle
Huntingtower
Prester John
Faeries
Salute to Adventurers
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Path of the King
The Courts of the morning
Castle Gay
Nelson's history of the war
Pilgrim's way
The dancing floor
The three hostages
John Macnab
The power-house
Sick Heart River
Midwinter
The gap in the curtain
27 Classic Short Stories
Witch Wood
Sir Quixote of the Moors
The Runagates Club
The Free Fishers
The massacre of Glencoe
Augustus
Memory hold-the-door
The house of the four winds
The blanket of the dark
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole 02. Das rote Zimmer
The last secrets
A Date With Danger
THE DEVIL'S COVEN
The moon endureth
The Magic Walking-Stick
Brasenose college
A prince of the captivity
Sir Walter Scott
A history of English literature
Montrose
A history of the great war
The Complete Richard Hannay
Oliver Cromwell
The Marquis of Montrose
The African colony
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories
Poems
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell
The battle of the Somme
Italy
Some eighteenth century byways, and other essays
Ready Readers
To catch a spy
Island of Sheep, the
A lost lady of old years
Scottish Stories
The Leithen Stories
The far islands and other tales of fantasy
The long traverse
The novel and the fairy tale
No-Man's-land
Musa piscatrix
The four adventures of Richard Hannay
The law relating to the taxation of foreign income
Two ordeals of democracy
The long road to victory
The history of the South African forces in France
The clearing house
Third Clasic Thriller Collection
Julius Caesar
The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales
The Pilgrim Fathers
The thirty-nine steps and The power-house
The Battle of the Somme, second phase
Homilies and recreations
These for remembrance
The King's Grace
The kirk in Scotland, 1560-1929
John Burnet of Barnes
The northern muse
The complete short stories
The battle of the Somme, first phase
Grey weather
Mandate of Heaven
Lord Minto
Britain's war by land
The Scotswoman by Fletcher, Inglis
Yugoslavia
The causal and the casual in history
John Bernet of Barns - A Romance
John Buchan
Nilima Mrutyu Pami Chhe (Gujarati Edition)
The Thirty-Nine Steps" / "Witchwood"
Supernatural Tales
The man and the book
The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan
Gordon at Khartoum
Second Classic Thriller Collection
Best of John Buchan
Days to remember
Call Of The Wind, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague
Episodes of the Great War
A book of escapes and hurried journeys
Andrew Lang and the Border
The people's king, George V
The Thirty-Nine Steps & the Greenmantle
The best short stories of John Buchan
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott
Lord Rosebery, 1847-1930 [!]
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack Updated
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn
Adventures of James Jan Sales Boa
Presbyterianism, yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow
Adventures of Richard Hannay
Anthropologica Incognita
1918-Catastrophe to Victory
Hannay's War
Men and deeds
Cromwell
Journey into Fear / The 39 Steps / And Then There Were None / The Maltese Falcon / The Nine Tailors / The Doorbell Rang
A lodge in the wilderness
A shorter history of English literature
Basilissa
Musa Piscatrix
Die neununddreißig Stufen
Lake of gold
Modern short stories
The battle of Jutland
John Buchan. 1
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
Keeper of Cademuir
Richard Hannay Trilogy
War with Turkey, 1914-18----Volume 1
Comments and characters
Richard Hannay- The First Trilogy
An address by His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir ... at a special convocation, November 23rd, 1935
Scholar-gipsies
El poder ocult
Dickson Trilogy
Prester John
English literature
The interpreter's house
Selected Stories of John Buchan
Journey of Little Profit
The Best Short Stories
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack
Essays And Studies
Le collier du prêtre Jean
La Centrale d'énergie
The Complete Short Stories - Volume One
Companions of the Way
Grove of Ashtaroth
A Five-Fold Salute to Adventure
Essential John Buchan Collection
Quality and quantity
The history of the Royal Scots fusiliers (1678-1918)
John Buchan - Nelson's History of the War - Volume III
Dangerous Dimensions New Pub Date Jan 2021
Space
The Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Prester John
Richard Hannay's War Adventures
Bulgaria and Romania [The Nations of To-Day]
Naval episodes of the great war
Adventurers all
The man from the Norlands
Outgoing of the Tide
John Buchan
Buchan's war
THE FOUR ADVENTURES OF RICHArD HANNAY.
Classic John Buchan Stories
British America
Fullcircle
Four tales
The written and the spoken word
John Buchan By Wife Friends
Scottish Historical Fiction
Three Great Thrillers Set (For Son of Whitesale Only)
The Thirty-Nine Steps
El viento en el pórtico
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels
El Baston Magico
Best Short Stories of John Buchan
Farewell to Priorsford
The Richard Hannay Collection
Ultimate Richard Hannay Collection
Meditations of a country chiel
India
The nations of to-day
Canadian occasions
The Changing IT Skills Scene
Sir Walter Scott : 1832-1932
Witch wood
Dalquharter
PAMs into the 1990s
Glimpses of John Buchan
The Supply of Teachers
The adventures of Sir Edward Leithen
Im Westen was neues
A. P. Herbert
A. P. Herbert (1890-1971)

politician, barrister, playwright, political activist

  • Winchester College, University of Oxford

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The secret battle
Uncommon law
Holy deadlock
The house by the river
Bardot M.P.?
Mr. Gay's London
Half-hours at Helles
General cargo
Misleading cases in the common law
Letter to the electors of Oxford University from A.P. Herbert ... independent national candidate
Letter to the electors of Oxford University from A.P. Herbert ... independent candidate
Light articles only
A.P.H.
Little Rays Of Moonshine
In the dark: the summer time story and the painless plan
The singing swan
Wisdom for the wise
More misleading cases
The water gypsies
LOOK BACK AND LAUGH
Barbican regained
No fine on fun
Libraries: Free-For-All?
The man about town
Independent member
The ayes have it
The wherefore and the why
The Bomber gipsy
More uncommon law
Double demon, and other one-act plays
Silver stream
Anything but action?
Sundials old and new
The Thames
Derby day, a comic opera in three acts
The trials of Topsy
Laughing Ann, and other poems
A.T.I.
What a word
Number nine, or, The mind-sweepers
No boats on the river
Derby Day
Pools pilot, or, why not you?
The English laugh
I object
The right to marry
Honeybubble & Co
Tantivy Towers
Best Cartoons from Punch
Topsy Turvy
Double demon
Codd's last case, and other misleading cases
"Well, anyhow--", or, Little talks
The Topsy omnibus
Riverside nights
Voluble Topsy
England speaks, a symposium
'Less nonsense'!
Why Waterloo?
La vie parisienne
"Tinker, tailor"
A better sky, or, Name this star
Helen
Watch this space, six years of it
Fat King Melon and Princess Caraway
Topsy, M.P.
The point of Parliament
'Full enjoyment'
Mr. Pewter
Rechtsfälle, Linksfälle. Eine Auswahl juristischer Phantasien
The Secret Battle
Wasserzigeuner, Roman
Big Ben
Ballads for broadbrows
Four one-act plays
Still more misleading cases
A book of ballads
Mild and bitter
Light the lights
The Secret Battle And The House By The River
Wigs at work
Bless the Bride
Bring back the bells
The old flame
Two gentlemen of Soho
Let there be liberty
Die gewerblichen produktivgenossenschaften in Deutschland nach dem stande vom 1. januar 1912
A. P. Herbert
Vrangen paÌŠ retten
Topsy
Sip! Swallow!
Siren song
Leave my old morale alone
Poor poems and rotten rhymes
Let us be glum
She-shanties
Made for man
Plain Jane