John Buchan

A Lost Lady of Old Years (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This novel, set during the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, tells the story of Francis Birkenshaw, a young Edinburgh man intent on leading a life of debauchery until he chances upon the beautiful Margaret Murray, wife of the Bonnie Prince's secretary. Francis is soon led down a dangerous and adventurous road with Margaret's husband, the villainous traitor John Murray of Broughton. A dark tale of love and betrayal, A Lost Lady of Old Years is also a compelling portrait of this turbulent time in European history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411463752
• Artikelnr.: 37873295

Autorenporträt

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.