Witch Wood by John Buchan audiobook

Witch Wood

By John Buchan
Read by Antony Ferguson

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798200940042

  • ISBN: 9798200940035

  • ISBN: 9798200940059

Runtime: 11.42 Hours
Category: Fiction/Classics
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[A] powerful, charming, and spiritually earnest novel.” The Spectator (UK)

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Author

Author Bio: John Buchan

Author Bio: John Buchan

John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet, and novelist who wrote more than one hundred works. Of those published during his lifetime, he is best remembered for his adventure and spy stories, especially The Thirty-Nine Steps, which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. During World War I, he worked as a war correspondent before joining the army, serving with the headquarters staff of the British Army in France. He was educated at Glasgow University and Brasenose College, Oxford. He became a barrister, member of Parliament, soldier, publisher, and governor general of Canada.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Classics
Runtime: 11.42
Audience: Adult
Language: English