John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield (1875-1940) Scottish historian, Governor General of Canada, Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada and author of the infamous thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. (1915)
John Buchan was born at York Place, Perth, Scotland on 26 August 1875 and grew up in the mining town of Pathhead, Fife. He was the eldest son of John Buchan (1847–1911) a jovial and fun-loving Free Church of Scotland minister, and Helen née Masterson, (1857–1937) both of whom would later provide fodder for his fictional characters. Among John's siblings William, Walter and Alistair, his sister Anna Buchan (b.1877) would become the novelist O. Douglas.
Young John's childhood was brightened by his father's love of singing Scots border ballads and playing instruments along with daily family prayers. He would teach all his children the legends and history of Scotland. On the Fife coast, their big grey manse house was surrounded by a railway, a coal-pit and a bleaching works and further away woods to play in. In contrast to his mother's harsh Calvinistic sense of respectability, Buchan's Uncle Willie (d. 1906) would encourage and inspire him in creativity and pursuits beyond his forebears'. At the age of five, Buchan was run over by a carriage, whereupon he lay in bed for the better part of a year and which would leave permanent scars on his otherwise striking features. Summer holidays were spent in the southern sunny Borders region with his maternal grandparents, sheep farmers for many generations, where young John explored the glens, hunted for birds and their eggs, fished for trout in the rivers and met the local people. Daytime revolved around jaunts into the surrounding woods, which Paul Bunyan himself had claimed, and the magic of fairytales told by his father added to the enchantment. These idyllic childhood memories would also provide much basis for his future writings. The concept of a Calvinistic Devil didn't torment Buchan as a child because "The fatal influence of Robert Burns made me regard him as a rather humorous and jovial figure; nay more, as something of a sportsman, dashing and debonair." An avid reader, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress was a "constant companion" for John.
Buchan did not follow a conventional schooling due to the family's financial constraints. He first attended a dame's school, where he learned to knit, but because of his spilling a pot of broth was promptly expelled. He entered grammar school in 1888, then went on to Glasgow University on scholarship at the age of seventeen, where he studied the classics, wrote poetry and published essays in the Glasgow University Magazine to defray his costs of tuition. Buchan saw his first publication, The Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon in 1894. A year later Buchan, the patriotic Scotsman would go to England, the "sinister and fascinating land" to attend Brasenose College, Oxford University to study law. His then misunderstandings and hesitancy about entering the country caused him some period of adjustment. "I felt that I had been pitch forked into a kindergarten. . . I must have been at that time an intolerable prig." But these worries were soon quelled, as the homey and comforting lodgings, the noble grounds and buildings of the ancient institution appealed to his sensibilities and claimed his heart forever.
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Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life - until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game - and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" established John Buchan as the original thriller writer and inspired many other novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock.
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评分他当过政治家、英国保守党国会议员、律师、出版商,也参过军。他以创作惊险故事而流传于世,其中以理查德·汉内系列最为经典。 这个人就是约翰·巴肯。 1875年,约翰·巴肯出生于苏格兰的珀斯,父亲是苏格兰自由教会的牧师。1876年,他们全家搬到了法夫,随后又搬至格拉斯哥的...
评分电影是很小的时候看的,印象最深刻的就是最后在大钟表针上的搏斗,看了小说才知道那都是导演改编的。这个版本的翻译整体还可以,但是有些明显的错误,比如出现了“电动自行车”和“导弹”,这就有点穿越了,对照英文版才发现分明是摩托车和鱼雷。文中还有几处错别字,应该是编...
评分《第三十九级台阶》,读过这本小说的人,肯定要比看过这部电影的人要少的多。苏格兰作家 John Buchan 的这本小说以一战爆发之前为背景,说的是一个在非洲生活多年的英国人汉内被意外卷入间谍案,挺身而出与敌人周旋的故事。1915年出版之后马上引起轰动,之后被四次拍成电影或...
评分很惭愧自己对阿尔弗雷德•希区柯克的认识几乎为零,除了知道他是世界上非常著名的悬疑大师以外,却从未看过他的任何一部片子(准备有空恶补)。 也因此,在看完有希区柯克改编成电影,英国作家约翰•巴肯的重要作品之一《39级台阶》这本书后好久,都不知该如何下笔去加以...
1915年,读过最老的原著小说。怪不得希胖子电影改编了那么多(ー`´ー),小说实在不太精彩。作为悬疑小说没有情节起伏,语言也一般,无聊,主角光环也太明显了。倒是积累了一大堆苏格兰土语「呵呵」。
评分a he-gets-whatever-he-wants adventure
评分看的是书虫系列的,薄薄的一本读了多遍,都是一口气看完,很扣人心弦。
评分呵呵,当时看的是中英文的,但是感觉不出来惊悚。。。
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