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Автор: Buchan John
Название: The Path of the King: Novel
ISBN: 9781795657563
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1795657561
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 130
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 01.02.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 254 x 203 x 7
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories.PlotThe novel takes the form of a loosely-coupled collection of short stories presenting a sweeping tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman, French, Flemish, English, Scottish and American scenes.In the first episode, a Northern princes golden torque represents the symbol of his royal status. On his death, the gold is remodelled as a ring which is handed down from generation to generation until it is eventually inherited by the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The young Abe, using it as a sinker for his fishing line, loses it in a crick and is distraught. On her deathbed, Abes mother recognises the potential for kingliness in her young son and dies content, realising that the ring is needed no more.In an epilogue to the novel, set many years later, three men stand watching the funeral cort ge after Lincolns death. There goes the first American says one. The young British attach replies I dare say you are right, Professor, but I think it is also the last of the Kings...John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 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 administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940.Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom....l

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