The strange adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & other stories
By: John Buchan ; introduced and selected by Giles Foden
Contributors: Foden, Giles
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780141442426
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work."--Publisher.
Notes: "This edition, with minor emendations, follows the text of the three-volume Complete short stories published by Thistle Publishing in 1996 "--Title page verso.

Originally published as: Stories. London : Folio Society, 2008.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Introduction; title: A captain of salvation; title: A journey of little profit; title: Politics and the May-Fly; title: Streams of water in the south; title: The watcher by the threshold; title: Fountainblue; title: The grove of Ashtaroth; title: Space; title: 'Divus' Johnston; title: Basilissa; title: Fullcircle; title: The loathly opposite; title: Ship to Tarshish; title: Tendebant Manus; title: The last crusade; title: Sing a song of sixpence; title: The wind in the portico; title: The strange adventures of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn.