Haku
Kirjaudu sisään
  • Kotisivu

  • Kategoriat

  • Äänikirjat

  • E-kirjat

  • Lapsille

  • Top listat

  • Ohje

  • Lataa sovellus

  • Käytä kampanjakoodia

  • Lunasta lahjakortti

  • Kokeile nyt ilmaiseksi
  • Kirjaudu sisään
  • Kieli

    • 🇫🇮 Suomi
    • 🇧🇪 Belgique
    • 🇩🇰 Danmark
    • 🇩🇪 Deutschland
    • 🇪🇸 España
    • 🇫🇷 France
    • 🇳🇱 Nederland
    • 🇳🇴 Norge
    • 🇦🇹 Österreich
    • 🇨🇭 Schweiz
    • 🇸🇪 Sverige
  1. Kirjat
  2. Dekkarit
  3. Klassiset dekkarit

Lue ja kuuntele ilmaiseksi 42 päivää!

Peruuta milloin vain

Kokeile nyt ilmaiseksi
0.0(0)
The Dickson McCunn Stories

Huntingtower

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson McCunn books, it is set near Carrick in south west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year old grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero.

The story revolves around the imprisonment under false pretenses by Bolshevik agents of an exiled Russian noblewoman. The Scottish local community mobilises to uncover and thwart the conspiracy against her, and to defend the neutrality of Scotland against the Russian revolutionary struggle. A plot based on espionage and covert violence is set against the seemingly tranquil Scottish rural backdrop, a narrative device commonly found in Buchan’s novels. He uses this notably in The Thirty Nine Steps. The novel contrasts the domestic characters, heroes and villains, with their more alien Russian counterparts. Huntingtower is characteristic of Buchan’s novels, particularly in its class-based paternalism; its xenophobic prejudices, which are mitigated by instinctive humanity and dry humour; and its shrewd common-sense understanding of personality and motivation.

In this novel Buchan creates characters across a broad spectrum of Scottish social classes and backgrounds, and while no one except McCunn is presented in great depth, we are given sharp and revealing character sketches of other key characters.

The 1927 Black and White silent film Huntingtower was based on the novel and directed by George Pearson. "Huntingtower" was adapted for BBC television in 1957, starring James Hayter. Huntingtower was also adapted in three one-hour episodes for BBC Radio in 2009 by Trevor Royal and directed by Patrick Raynor, and starred Roy Hanlon as McCunn, Stuart McQuarry as Heritage and David McKail as the Narrator. In addition to the above, BBC Scotland produced an adaptation which was broadcast over six episodes starting in October 1978.

The Dickson McCunn Trilogy is a set of three books by John Buchan. The novels in the trilogy are Huntingtower (1922), Castle Gay (1930) and The House of the Four Winds (1935).

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (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 both his writing career and his political and diplomatic career, 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. Once he was back in civilian life Buchan was 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.

Äänikirja

  • Julkaistu: 1.1.2019

  • Kieli: englanti

  • Kustantamo: Anncona Media

  • ISBN: 9789176050316

E-kirja

  • Julkaistu: 1.1.2019

  • Kieli: englanti

  • Kustantamo: Anncona Media

  • ISBN: 9789176050194


Kirjailija:

  • John Buchan

Lukija:

  • Simon Evers

Sarja:

  • Numero 1 in The Dickson McCunn Stories

Muoto:

  • Äänikirja
  • E-kirja

Kesto:

  • 7 h 32 min
  • 201 sivut

Kieli:

englanti

Kategoriat:

  • Dekkarit
  • Klassiset dekkarit

Lisää kirjoittajalta John Buchan

Ohita lista
  1. Afrikan viimeinen kuningas : Valtapeli ja seikkailu Afrikan sydämessä: historiallinen romaani Skotlannin kirjailijalta

    John Buchan

    book
  2. The Grove of Ashtaroth

    John Buchan

    audiobookbook
  3. The Complete Richard Hannay Adventures : eBook Bundle

    John Buchan

    book
  4. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces : A Classic Collection of Suspense & Danger

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Zenith Horizon Publishing

    book
  5. The Book of Shadows Vol II : Supernatural Horror & Occult Fiction – A Chilling Anthology of Witchcraft, Curses, and Dark Forces

    Bram Stoker, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, W. F. Harvey, Hugh Walpole, Zenith Golden Quill

    book
  6. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

    book
  7. 30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces : Unputdownable Stories That Will Keep You on the Edge

    Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan, Zenith Crescent Moon Press

    book
  8. The Runagates Club

    John Buchan

    audiobookbook
  9. The Three Hostages

    John Buchan

    audiobookbook
  10. Mr. Standfast

    John Buchan

    audiobookbook
  11. Sir Walter Scott : His Life and Work

    John Buchan

    book
  12. The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged) : Intrigue and Adventure: Tales of Espionage and Suspense

    John Buchan

    book

The Dickson McCunn Stories Sarja

Ohita lista
  1. Castle Gay

    John Buchan

    book
  2. The House of the Four Winds

    John Buchan

    book

Ohjeet ja yhteystiedot


Tietoa meistä

  • Tarinamme
  • Ura
  • Media
  • Saavutettavuus
  • Ryhdy kumppaniksemme
  • Sijoittajasuhteet
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Tutki

  • Kategoriat
  • Äänikirjat
  • E-kirjat
  • Aikakauslehdet
  • Lapsille
  • Top listat

Suositut kategoriat

  • Dekkarit
  • Elämäkerrat ja reportaasit
  • Romaanit
  • Rakkaus ja feelgood
  • Hyvinvointi
  • Lastenkirjat
  • Tositarinat
  • Uni ja rentoutuminen

Nextory

Tekijänoikeus © 2025 Nextory AB

Yksityisyyden suoja · Ehdot ·
Erinomainen4.3 / 5