The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories - Softcover

Buchan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141442425 ISBN 13: 9780141442426

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories.

In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.

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Review:

" It is Buchan's ability to transport his readers to this magic universe which has produced so many devotees to his writing."
-Giles Foden, from the Introduction

From the Back Cover:

'I was to be offered up as a sacrifice to some heathen god - an awful fate for a Free-kirk elder in the prime of life'

In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories.

In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.

Selected with an introduction by Giles Foden

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141442425
• ISBN 13: 9780141442426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384