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Showing posts with label John Buchan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Buchan. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 January 2025

Robert Louis Stevenson and the colour green

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T his article is yet another in the series that lists interesting references to and occurrences of the colour green in the lives and works o...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Inspiration and creativity in Conan Doyle's Magic Door

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T his is yet another article in the series inspired by Through the Magic Door , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's little volume of essays about b...
Monday, 20 May 2024

Another scene of interest from a Dion Fortune occult novel

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A s mentioned in the article inspired by The Demon Lover , there are scenes in Dion Fortune's occult novels that have particular relevan...
Friday, 19 April 2024

A few more quotations from L. M. Montgomery's Green Gables Letters

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M any elements in the life, letters and works of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery are of great relevance to this blog; several topics and public...
Sunday, 18 February 2024

Green shirts and green kirtles: some good and bad associations

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O scar Wilde's proposition that favouring the colour green  is a sign of creativity in individuals but of moral laxity and decadence in ...
Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Oscar Wilde's interesting words about the colour green

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T he many occurrences of the colour green in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's essay collection Through the Magic Door   inspired an investigatio...
Monday, 11 December 2023

More about John Buchan and the colour green

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L ooking for reasonably significant references to the colour green in John Buchan's books involves eliminating a very large number of de...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

Something about John Buchan and the colour green

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A fter listing some connections and references to the colour green in the life and works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  and covering some simila...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

Two temptation scenes in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood books

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T his article has something to say about what might be called the temptation of Lucy Carlyle, a major character in Jonathan Stroud's Loc...
Friday, 30 July 2021

Cults and the inversion of values

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T his article contains two examples of people who neglected or abandoned personal responsibilities in favour of working for the cause. Both ...
Tuesday, 15 June 2021

More about Walter de la Mare's Return

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T he first article about Walter de la Mare's horror novel The Return  ended at the point where Arthur Lawford, whose appearance has chan...
Sunday, 27 September 2020

Some writers with Celtic connections

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T he starting point for this article was a line in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novella The Parasite , which has been the subject of many articl...
Thursday, 23 July 2020

John Buchan, L. M. Montgomery and some snakes

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I neither love and revere snakes nor hate and fear them. I once horrified a friend by trying to stroke a big snake in a small zoo. I couldn’...
Wednesday, 1 July 2020

84 years of John Buchan’s Island of Sheep

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The Island of Sheep , published as The Man from the Norlands in the US, is the fifth and final book in the series of John Buchan’s Richard H...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

96 years of John Buchan’s Three Hostages

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The Three Hostages is the fourth in the series of John Buchan’s Richard Hannay adventures.  I t was first published in two instalments in ...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Diana Wynne Jones and the shortage of reading material

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D iana Wynne Jones is yet another writer who was a voracious reader as a child. Unfortunately, she never had nearly enough books to satisfy ...
Friday, 4 October 2019

Violet Needham, Pandora, and Mr Papadopoulis

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V iolet Needham wrote some high-quality books for children. They were published between the years 1939 and 1957.  A part from a brief ment...
Monday, 26 August 2019

100 years of John Buchan’s Mr Standfast

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T his day, A ugust 26th, is John Buchan’s birthday. This article marks the 144th anniversary of his birth. T his year,   2019,  is the 100...
Friday, 26 July 2019

John Buchan and the hate-filled ‘humanitarians’

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T his article is a companion to the one featuring Rafael Sabatini’s wise words on the subject of equality  as a by-product of envy.  T ...
Tuesday, 9 July 2019

More words about writing from L. M. Montgomery

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T his article contains a few more hard-hitting quotations on the subject of writers and writing from L. M. Montgomery. S he seems ambiv...