The Imaginative World of John Buchan

Abstract

IT HAS BEEN SAID that one of the marks of greatness in a writer is that his characters cease to be ‘people in a book’, becoming instead the intimate friends of the reader. By that test alone John Buchan, the centenary of whose birth we remembered on August 26, was certainly a great craftsman, for the characters of his novels have been for many years now my familiar and well‐loved friends.

Citation

Sykes, M. (1975), "The Imaginative World of John Buchan", Library Review, Vol. 25 No. 3/4, pp. 104-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012628