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Fiction · 1916

Greenmantle

John Buchan

Reading time
about 7 h
Length
98,670 words · 210 pages in print
Structure
22 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Edwardian

Greenmantle, first published in 1916, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Introductory
  2. Chapter I — A Mission is Proposed
  3. Chapter II — The Gathering of the Missionaries
  4. Chapter III — Peter Pienaar
  5. Chapter IV — Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose
  6. Chapter V — Further Adventures of the Same
  7. Chapter VI — The Indiscretions of the Same
  8. Chapter VII — Christmastide
  9. Chapter VIII — The Essen Barges
  10. Chapter IX — The Return of the Straggler
  11. Chapter X — The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
  12. Chapter XI — The Companions of the Rosy Hours
  13. Chapter XII — Four Missionaries See Light in their Mission
  14. Chapter XIII — I Move in Good Society
  15. Chapter XIV — The Lady of the Mantilla
  16. Chapter XV — An Embarrassed Toilet
  17. Chapter XVI — The Battered Caravanserai
  18. Chapter XVII — Trouble by the Waters of Babylon
  19. Chapter XVIII — Sparrows on the Housetops
  20. Chapter XIX — Greenmantle
  21. Chapter XX — Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars
  22. Chapter XXI — The Little Hill
  23. Chapter XXII — The Guns of the North

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John Buchan

1875–1940 · Modern

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