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The Dancing Floor book. Incidentally, the first time I read John Buchan's The Dancing Floor, in 2010, was also during a Christmas break. At the time, the story of Vernon, Kore, and Leithen comforted me. An attempt at re-experiencing those feelings and thoughts drew me back to this book.

The Dancing Floor centres on a young English woman, Kore Arabin, who inherits a house on a remote Greek island. The Dancing Floor - John Buchan. Sir Edward Leithen and Vernon Milburne must save her before the islanders sacrifice her. Sir Edward Leithen is a character that features prominently in several other John Buchan novels, including „The Power-House, „The Gap in the Curtain and others.

John Buchan writes in such descriptive and romantic terms that the reader is drawn in and transported to a day gone by where gentleman were expected to behave as such and ladies were allowed to be feminine while still exhibiting strength of character

John Buchan writes in such descriptive and romantic terms that the reader is drawn in and transported to a day gone by where gentleman were expected to behave as such and ladies were allowed to be feminine while still exhibiting strength of character. Buchan's cast of central characters are at once believable and sympathetic -yet still slightly larger than life.

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Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of g directly to prime minister David Lloyd George-during the First World War and a Unionist MP who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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The supersitious islanders blame Kore for every mishap and natural disaster. Sir Edward Leithen and Vernon Milburne must save her before the islanders sacrifice her as a witch in the sacred ground called The Dancing Floor. One fee. Stacks of books. Read whenever, wherever. Your phone is always with you, so your books are too – even when you’re offline.

Author: Buchan, John, 1875-1940. Subject: Leithen, Edward (Fictitious character) - Fiction.

John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet, and novelist, whose most famous thriller was The Thirty-Nine Steps. In his lifetime Buchan published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. The main characters of The Dancing Floor are the barrister Edward Leithen (who appears in two other Buchan novels), his younger friend Vernon Milburne and a young woman, Kore Arabin. Both Leithen and Milburne dislike the girl intensely at first. Leithen however soon becomes entranced and obsessed by her. Milburne begins to respect her and eventually he and.

The Dancing Floor (1926) reaches a powerful climax in a pagan festival on a Greek island whilst Sick Heart River . Buchan is a writer with something to offer almost every taste in literature. The John Buchan Society offers more information for those interested.

The Dancing Floor (1926) reaches a powerful climax in a pagan festival on a Greek island whilst Sick Heart River, called Mountain Meadow in the US, (1941) takes us to the Canadian Arctic where Leithen battles his last illness in an epic journey to find a lost businessman. Peter runs sms books – an online bookshop in Loughborough, UK, that specializes in John Buchan.