Huntingtower
eBook - ePub

Huntingtower

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Huntingtower

About this book

Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together they become embroiled in a dangerous plot to kidnap an exiled Russian princess. With the help of the local worthies and the Gorbals Die-Hards– a plucky, resourceful gang of boys from Glasgow– the two men attempt to frustrate the gang, save the princess and protect Scotland from the evils of communism. In the process Dickson McCunn Discovers that life after retirement can definitely be a life less ordinary. Written in 1922, just a few years after the Russian Revolution, Huntingtower is both a modern fairytale and a gripping adventure story, and introduces some of Buchan's best-loved characters, the Gorbals Die-Hards. With an introduction by Ann Widdecombe. This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780857902375
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Introduction
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. 1. How a Retired Provision Merchant Felt the Impulse of Spring
  9. 2. Of Mr John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View
  10. 3. How Childe Roland and Another Came to the Dark Tower
  11. 4. Dougal
  12. 5. Of the Princess in the Tower
  13. 6. How Mr McCunn Departed with Relief and Returned with Resolution
  14. 7. Sundry Doings in the Mirk
  15. 8. How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge
  16. 9. The First Battle of the Cruives
  17. 10. Deals with an Escape and a Journey
  18. 11. Gravity Out of Bed
  19. 12. How Mr McCunn Committed an Assault upon an Ally
  20. 13. The Coming of the Danish Brig
  21. 14. The Second Battle of the Cruives
  22. 15. The Gorbals Die-Hards Go into Action
  23. 16. In which a Princess Leaves a Dark Tower and a Provision Merchant Returns to his Family
  24. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM POLYGON BY JOHN BUCHAN