Fiction · 1919
Mr. Standfast
Mr. Standfast, first published in 1919, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Note
- Part I
- Chapter I — The Wicket-Gate
- Chapter II — “The Village Named Morality”
- Chapter III — The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
- Chapter IV — Andrew Amos
- Chapter V — Various Doings in the West
- Chapter VI — The Skirts of the Coolin
- Chapter VII — I Hear of the Wild Birds
- Chapter VIII — The Adventures of a Bagman
- Chapter IX — I Take the Wings of a Dove
- Chapter X — The Advantages of an Air Raid
- Chapter XI — The Valley of Humiliation
- Part II
- Chapter XII — I Become a Combatant Once More
- Chapter XIII — The Adventure of the Picardy Château
- Chapter XIV — Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
- Chapter XV — St Anton
- Chapter XVI — I Lie on a Hard Bed
- Chapter XVII — The Col of the Swallows
- Chapter XVIII — The Underground Railway
- Chapter XIX — The Cage of the Wild Birds
- Chapter XX — The Storm Breaks in the West
- Chapter XXI — How an Exile Returned to His Own People
- Chapter XXII — The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast
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1875–1940 · Modern
John Buchan (1875–1940) was born in Perth, Scotland, the son of a Free Church of Scotland minister, and educated at Glasgow and Oxford. He practised law, worked as a publisher and Conservative MP, and served as Director of Information during the First World War before turning increasingly to writing. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) introduced Richard Hannay and the chase thriller that made him famous, followed by four more Hannay novels and dozens of other books — histories, biographies, over a hundred works in total. In 1935 he was appointed Governor General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir; he died in office in Montreal in 1940, of injuries from a fall.
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