The Watcher by the Threshold

Shorter Scottish Fiction

John Buchan, Andrew Lownie

• Publisher: Canongate Classics
• Year: 2009
• Topic: Literature
• Print ISBN:
  9780862416829
• Subtopic: Literature General
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847675729
• Index: Literature

This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan's shorter Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan's writing. Featuring shepherds, poachers, gamekeepers and drovers, they are worlds away from the tales of aristocratic adventure with which he is so often associated.Shot through with characters and places he returned to in his full-length fiction, the Buchan that emerges from this collection is a very different and much more complex writer than he is often held to be.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• On Cademuir Hill
• Afternoon
• An Individualist
• A Journey Of Little Profit
• Politics And The May-Fly
• The Herd Of Standlan
• Streams Of Water In The South
• At The Article Of Death
• At The Rising Of The Waters
• Prester John
• The Moor Song
• A Reputation
• Comedy In The Full Moon
• The Earlier Affection
• The Black Fishers
• Summer Weather
• The Oasis In The Snow
• Gideon Scott
• No-Man’s Land
• The Far Islands
• The Watcher By The Threshold
• Fountainblue
• The Outgoing Of The Tide
• The Knees Of The Gods
• The Green Glen
• The Riding Of Ninemileburn
• Watches Of The Night
• The Frying-Pan And The Fire
• Skule Skerry
• Glossary
• Selected John Buchan Reading List