John Buchan

The Huntingtower John Buchan

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The rst 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. 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. Another television adaptation was produced by BBC Scotland and broadcast over six episodes starting in October 1978. Huntingtower was also adapted in three one-hour episodes for BBC Radio in 1988 by Trevor Royle and directed by Patrick Raynor. Roy Hanlon starred as McCunn, Stuart McQuarrie as Heritage and David McKail as the Narrator. The series has been repeated on Radio 4 Extra, most recently in November 2014. This classic title has been published by RADLEY BOOKS. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/additions to creep into the author's words. Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com (or search RADLEY CLASSIC on Amazon) to see more classic book titles in this series.