List of works by John Buchan
Novels↙ | 29 |
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Collections↙ | 2 |
Poems↙ | 4 |
Books edited↙ | 14 |
Non-fiction↙ | 42 |
Biographies↙ | 10 |
References and footnotes |
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of Information—reporting directly to prime minister David Lloyd George—during the First World War and a Unionist MP who served as Governor General of Canada, the fifteenth to hold the office since Canadian Confederation.[1][2][3]
Born in Perth, Scotland, Buchan was admitted to the University of Glasgow in 1892 to study classics; during his first year at university he edited the works of Francis Bacon, which were published in 1894.[4] The following year he was awarded a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford; shortly after his arrival he also published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors, which he dedicated to Gilbert Murray, his university tutor.[5] By the time he left the university he had published five books,[1] including Scholar-Gipsies, his first work of non-fiction.[2][6]
Much of Buchan's non-fiction mirrored his circumstances: his time in South Africa resulted in The African Colony, and the First World War led to a series of books about the war in general, and the Scottish and South African forces in particular.[7] He interspersed his non-fiction with further novels, and also wrote ten biographies and four volumes of poetry, as well as numerous articles and stories for magazines and journals.[5] During the war he wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps, the novel which has been adapted for film and television more than any of his other work, (film versions in 1935, 1959 and 1978 and a 2008 television version).[8]
Editor
[edit]Buchan was the general editor of the Teaching of History series, published by T. Nelson Publishers between 1928 and 1930. In 1900 he was also a member of the editorial board of The Spectator.[9]
Title[9][10] | Year of first publication |
Author | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon | 1894 | Francis Bacon | Walter Scott Publishing Co | [11] | |
Musa Piscatrix | 1896 | Various | John Lane | [12] | |
The Compleat Angler | 1901 | Izaak Walton | Methuen Publishing | [13] | |
The Long Road to Victory | 1920 | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | [14] | |
Miscellanies: Literary and Historical | 1921 | Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Hodder & Stoughton | [15] | |
Great Hours in Sport | 1921 | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | [16] | |
The Nations of Today | 1923–24 | Various | Hodder & Stoughton | Six unnumbered volumes | [17] |
A History of English Literature | 1923 | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | Abridged and published in 1937 as A Shorter History of English Literature.[9] | [18] |
The Northern Muse: An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Poetry | 1924 | Various | Hodder & Stoughton | [19] | |
Modern Short Stories | 1926 | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | [20] | |
Essays and Studies | 1926 | Members of the English Association | Oxford University Press, Oxford | [10] | |
South Africa | 1927 | Various | British Empire Educational Press | [10] | |
A General Survey of British History | 1928 | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | Eleven volumes | [10] |
The Poetry of Neil Munro | 1931 | Neil Munro | William Blackwood & Sons | [21] |
Novels
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]Title[9][53] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Scholar-Gipsies | 1896 | John Lane | [54] |
A History of Brasenose College | 1898 | Robinson | [55] |
The African Colony | 1903 | William Blackwood & Sons | [56] |
The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income | 1905 | Stevens | [57] |
Some Eighteenth Century Byways | 1908 | William Blackwood & Sons | [58] |
Nine Brasenose Worthies | 1909 | Clarendon Press, Oxford | [59] |
What the Home Rule Bill Means | 1912 | T. Nelson Publishers | [59] |
Nelson's History of the War (24 volumes) | 1914–19 | T. Nelson Publishers | [60] |
Britain's War by Land | 1915 | Oxford University Press, Oxford | [61] |
The Achievement of France | 1915 | Methuen Publishing | [62] |
Ordeal by Marriage | 1915 | Clay Publishing | [59] |
The Future of the War | 1916 | Boyle, Sons & Watchurst | [59] |
The Battle of the Somme, First Phase | 1916 | T. Nelson Publishers | [63] |
The Purpose of War | 1916 | J. M. Dent & Sons | [10] |
The Battle of Jutland | 1916 | T. Nelson Publishers | [64] |
The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase | 1917 | T. Nelson Publishers | [65] |
These for Remembrance | 1919 | Privately printed, London | [66] |
The Island of Sheep[a] | 1919 | Hodder & Stoughton | [68] |
The Battle Honours of Scotland 1914–1918 | 1919 | Outram | [10] |
The History of the South African Forces in France | 1920 | T. Nelson Publishers | [69] |
A History of the Great War | 1922 | T. Nelson Publishers | [70] |
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys | 1922 | T. Nelson Publishers | [71] |
The Last Secrets | 1923 | T. Nelson Publishers | [72] |
The Margins of Life | 1923 | Birkbeck College | [73] |
Days to Remember[b] | 1923 | T. Nelson Publishers | [74] |
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678–1918 | 1925 | T. Nelson Publishers | [75] |
Two Ordeals of Democracy | 1925 | Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass | [76] |
The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919[c] | 1926 | William Blackwood & Sons | [77] |
Homilies and Recreations | 1926 | T. Nelson Publishers | [78] |
The Causal and the Casual in History | 1929 | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | [79] |
The Kirk in Scotland, 1560-1929[d] | 1930 | Hodder & Stoughton | [80] |
Montrose and Leadership | 1930 | Oxford University Press, Oxford | [81] |
The Novel and the Fairy Tale | 1931 | The English Association | [82] |
Andrew Lang and the Borders | 1932 | Oxford University Press, Oxford | [83] |
The Massacre of Glencoe | 1933 | Peter Davies | [84] |
Gordon at Khartoum | 1934 | Peter Davies | [85] |
The King's Grace | 1935 | Hodder & Stoughton | [86] |
Naval Episodes Of The Great War | 1938 | T. Nelson Publishers | [87] |
The Interpreter's House | 1938 | Hodder & Stoughton | [88] |
Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | 1938 | Church of Scotland, Edinburgh | [89] |
Memory Hold-the-Door | 1940 | Hodder & Stoughton | [90] |
Comments and Characters | 1940 | T. Nelson Publishers | [91] |
Canadian Occasions | 1940 | Hodder & Stoughton | [92] |
Biographies
[edit]Title[9][53] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Sir Walter Raleigh | 1897 | Blackwell Publishing, Oxford[e] | [93] |
The Marquis of Montrose | 1913 | T. Nelson Publishers | [94] |
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall | 1913 | William Blackwood & Sons | [95] |
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell: A Memoir | 1920 | T. Nelson Publishers | [96] |
Lord Minto: A Memoir | 1924 | T. Nelson Publishers | [97] |
The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott | 1925 | T. Nelson Publishers | [98] |
Montrose | 1928 | T. Nelson Publishers | [99] |
Sir Walter Scott | 1932 | Cassell | [100] |
Julius Caesar | 1932 | Peter Davies | [101] |
Oliver Cromwell | 1934 | Hodder & Stoughton | [102] |
Augustus | 1937 | Hodder & Stoughton | [103] |
Poetry collections
[edit]Title[9][22] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
The Pilgrim Fathers | 1898 | Blackwell Publishing, Oxford | [104] |
Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People (includes short stories) | 1899 | John Lane | [105] |
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies (includes short stories) | 1912 | W Blackwood & Sons | [106] |
Poems: Scots and English | 1917 | T.C. & E.C. Jack | [107] |
Short story collections
[edit]Title[9][22] | Year of first publication |
First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) |
Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People (includes poetry) | 1899 | John Lane | [105] |
The Watcher by the Threshold, and other tales | 1902 | W Blackwood & Sons | [108] |
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies (includes poetry) | 1912 | W Blackwood & Sons | [106] |
The Runagates Club | 1928 | Hodder & Stoughton | [109] |
The Long Traverse | 1941 | Hodder & Stoughton | [110] |
The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy | 1984 | Donald M. Grant, Publisher, West Kingston, RI | [111] |
Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Published anonymously by "Cadmus and Harmonia", ie John and Susan Buchan. Buchan re-used the title for his 1936 novel of the same name.[67]
- ^ Co-written with Henry Newbolt.[74]
- ^ Co-written with John Stewart.[77]
- ^ Co-written with George Adam Smith.[80]
- ^ Revised and enlarged for a second edition in 1911 by T. Nelson Publishers.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Matthew 2004.
- ^ a b Daniell 1992, p. 4.
- ^ "Lord Tweedsmuir". The Times. No. 48537. London. 12 February 1940. p. 8.
- ^ Daniell 1992, p. 5.
- ^ a b MacLeod 1984, p. 19.
- ^ "Lord Tweedsmuir: A Notable Figure in British Literary and Political Life". The Manchester Guardian. Manchester. 12 February 1940. p. 3.
- ^ Daniell 1992, pp. 5–6.
- ^ MacLeod 1984, p. 22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "John Buchan". Contemporary Authors. Gale. Retrieved 5 July 2014. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e f Daniell 1992, p. 11.
- ^ "Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon: edited, with an introduction, by John Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Musa Piscatrix". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Compleat Angler. ... Edited, with an introduction and notes, by J. Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Long Road to Victory. (By various authors) Edited by J. Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Miscellanies: Literary and Historical". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Great Hours in Sport. (By various authors) Edited by J. Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ Cox 1988, p. 54.
- ^ "A History of English Literature. Edited by J. Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Northern Muse". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Modern Short Stories. Collected by J. Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Poetry of Neil Munro". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ a b c Cox 1988, pp. 51–54.
- ^ MacLeod 1988, p. 21.
- ^ "Sir Quixote of the Moors. Being some account of an episode in the life of the Sieur de Rohaine". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "John Burnet of Barns. A romance". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "A Lost Lady of Old Years. A romance". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Index". Good Words. Vol. 41. 1900.
- ^ "The Half-Hearted". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "A Lodge in the Wilderness". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Prester John". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Salute to Adventurers". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Thirty-nine Steps". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Power-House". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Greenmantle". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Mr. Standfast". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Path of the King". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Huntingtower". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Midwinter. Certain travellers in old England. (A novel)". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Three Hostages". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "John Macnab". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Dancing Floor". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Witch Wood". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Courts of the Morning". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Castle Gay". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Blanket of the Dark". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Gap in the Curtain". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Magic Walking-Stick". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "A Prince of the Captivity". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Free Fishers". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The House of the Four Winds". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Island of Sheep". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ "Sick Heart River". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ a b Cox 1988, pp. 51–53.
- ^ "Scholar Gipsies". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Brasenose College". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The African Colony: studies in the reconstruction". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income, etc". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Some Eighteenth Century Byways, and other essays". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d Daniell 1992, p. 10.
- ^ "Nelson's History of the War". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Britain's War by Land". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Achievement of France". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Battle of the Somme. First (second) phase". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Battle of Jutland". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Battle of the Somme, second phase". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "These for Remembrance: Memoirs of 6 Friends Killed in the Great War". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ Lownie 2013, p. 190.
- ^ "The Island of Sheep". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 12 January 2016. Published anonymously by "Cadmus and Harmonia", ie John and Susan Buchan
- ^ "The History of the South African Forces in France". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "A History of the Great War". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Last Secrets. The final mysteries of exploration". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Margins of Life". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Days to Remember. The British Empire in the Great War". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1678–1918". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Two Ordeals of Democracy". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ a b "The Fifteenth-Scottish-Division, 1914–1919". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Homilies and Recreations". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Causal and the Casual in History, The Rede Lecture, 1929". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ a b "The Kirk in Scotland 1560–1929". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Montrose and Leadership". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Novel and the Fairy Tale". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Lang and the Border". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Massacre of Glencoe". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Gordon at Khartoum". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The King's Grace 1910–1935". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "The Interpreter's House. The Chancellor's installation address delivered before the University of Edinburgh". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Presbyterianism Yesterday, To-Day, and To-Morrow". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Memory Hold-the-Door". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Comments and Characters". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Canadian Occasions; Addresses". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Sir Walter Raleigh. The Stanhope Essay, 1897". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "The Marquis of Montrose / John Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Francis and Riversdale Grenfell / John Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Lord Minto: a memoir / by John Buchan". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Montrose". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Sir Walter Scott". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Julius Caesar, etc". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Oliver Cromwell". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Augustus". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "The Pilgrim Fathers. The Newdigate Prize Poem 1898". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Grey Weather. Moorland Tales of My Own People". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ a b "The Moon Endureth. Tales and fancies". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "Poems: Scots and English". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Watcher by the Threshold, and other tales". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "The Runagates Club". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Long Traverse". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ "The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy". Library of Congress Catalogue. Washington: Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
Sources
[edit]- Cox, J. Randolph (1988). "John Buchan". In Benstock, Bernard; Staley, Thomas (eds.). British Mystery Writers, 1860–1919. Detroit: Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-1748-2.
- Daniell, David (June 1992). "The Non-Fiction Works of John Buchan". The Book and Magazine Collector (99). Diamond Publishing Group.
- Lownie, Andrew (2013). John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier. London: Thistle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-9096-0999-0.
- MacLeod, Helen (April 1988). "The Novels of John Buchan". The Book and Magazine Collector (49). Diamond Publishing Group.
- MacLeod, Helen (December 1984). "John Buchan". The Book and Magazine Collector (10). Diamond Publishing Group.
- Matthew, H. C. G. (2004). "Buchan, John, first Baron Tweedsmuir". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32145. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)