Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY - John Buchan - Penguin Books (85? each...
...knows, is call in Richard Hannay. At least that is what old Sir Walter Bullivant at the Foreign Office always did. and with the most heartening results for both the interests of Old England and the greater glory of a sandpiper-sized Scottish scrivener named John Buchan. A soldier, a respected historian, Member of Parliament and, finally (as Lord Tweedsmuir) British Governor General of Canada, Writer-Statesman Buchan died in 1940. But lionhearted Dick Hannay and dozens of other Buchan characters, whose World War I and between-wars exploits fill a score of volumes, go marching on, most recently...
...Doldrums. Buchan began writing in 1895 and produced scholarly biographies of Scott and Oliver Cromwell, as well as a 1,500,000-word account of World War I. But his apparently secure niche in literary history depends on the oldest storytelling skill in the world: the ability to transport recognizable people to exotic places, place them in jeopardy, and bring them back alive...
...interested, sometime you might read the novels of Sir John Buchan, particularly The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Macnab, or Huntingtower. Notice something. The characters never have any colds. Not Sir Edward Leithen, nor Sir Archibald Roylance, nor Mr. McCunn (the middle-aged wholesale grocer from Glasgow), nor Fish Benjie, nor Mrs. Morran, nor any of the barefoot boys from Glasgow who sing Communist songs to the old Scots tunes. These novels were written in the not so dim and distant 20's. The characters were out in the weather a great deal. Some of the days were beautiful, but most...
...plot remains pretty much the same; both versions are based on the novel by the late John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody...