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Works
Tragic verse
Cromwell (1819)
Incomplete at time of death
Le Corsaire (opera)
Sténie
Falthurne
Corsino
Published pseudonymously
As "Lord R'Hoone", in collaboration
L'Héritière de Birague (1822)
Jean-Louis (1822)
As "Horace de Saint-Aubin"
Clotilde de Lusignan (1822)
Le Centenaire (1822)
Le Vicaire des Ardennes (1822)
La Dernière Fée (1823)
Annette et le Criminal (Argon le Pirate) (1824)
Wann-Chlore (1826)
Published anonymously
Du Droit d'aînesse (1824)
Histoire impartiale des Jésuites (1824)
Code des gens honnêtes (1826)
Selected titles from La Comédie humaine
Les Chouans (1829)
Sarrasine (1830)
La Peau de chagrin (1830)
Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
La Fille aux yeux d'or (1833)
Eugénie Grandet (1833)
Le Contrat de mariage (1835)
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Le Lys dans la vallée (1835)
Illusions perdues (I, 1837; II, 1839; III, 1843)
La Cousine Bette (1846)
Le Cousin Pons (1847)
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1847)
Plays
L'École des ménages (1839)
Vautrin (1839)
Les Ressources de Quinola (1842)
Paméla Figaud (1842)
La Marâtre (1848)
Mercadet ou le faiseur (1848)
Tales
Contes drolatiques (1832-37)
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John Buchan
Early life | Life as an author and politician | Life in Canada | Reputation | Bibliography of principal works
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.
Early life
Buchan was the eldest child in a family of four sons and a daughter (the novelist Anna Buchan) born to a Free Church of Scotland minister, also named John Buchan (1847-1911), and his wife Helen Jane (1857-1937), daughter of John Masterton, a farmer, of Broughton Green, near Peebles. Although born in Perth, he grew up in Fife and spent many summer holidays with his grandparents in Broughton in the Borders, developing a love of walking and the Borders scenery and wildlife that is often featured in his novels. One example is Sir Edward Leithen, the hero of a number of Buchan's books, whose name is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed. Broughton village is also home to the John Buchan Centre and makes up one end of the John Buchan Way.
After attending Hutchesons' Grammar School, Buchan won a scholarship to the University of Glasgow where he studied Classics and wrote poetry and first became a published author. He then studied Literae Humaniores at Brasenose College, Oxford, winning the Newdigate prize for poetry. He had a genius for friendship which he retained all his life. His friends at Oxford included Hilaire Belloc, Raymond Asquith and Aubrey Herbert.
Life as an author and politician
Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to British colonial administrator Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner for South Africa, Governor of Cape Colony and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State-Buchan gained an acquaintance with the country that was to feature prominently in his writing. On his return to London, he became a partner in a publishing company while he continued to write books. Buchan married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor (1882-1977), cousin of the Duke of Westminster, on July 15, 1907. Together they had four children, two of whom would spend most of their lives in Canada.
In 1910, he wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels, set in South Africa. In 1911, he first suffered from duodenal ulcers, an illness he would give to one of his characters in later books. He also entered