Length7h 32m
About this audiobook
Huntingtower (1922) by John Buchan is a novel about a 55-year-old grocer, Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement, and is 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 mobilizes to uncover and thwart the conspiracy against her, and to defend the neutrality of Scotland against the Russian revolutionary struggle. A plot based on espionage and covert violence is set against the seemingly tranquil Scottish rural backdrop. The novel contrasts the domestic characters, heroes and villains, with their more alien Russian counterparts. Huntingtower is characteristic of Buchan's novels, particularly in its class-based paternalism; its xenophobic prejudices, which are mitigated by instinctive humanity and dry humour; and its shrewd common-sense understanding of personality and motivation.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byDavid Beed
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - Huntingtower
10Chapter 10 - Huntingtower
2Chapter 2 - Huntingtower
11Chapter 11 - Huntingtower
3Chapter 3 - Huntingtower
12Chapter 12 - Huntingtower
4Chapter 4 - Huntingtower
13Chapter 13 - Huntingtower
5Chapter 5 - Huntingtower
14Chapter 14 - Huntingtower
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8Chapter 8 - Huntingtower
17Chapter 17 - Huntingtower
9Chapter 9 - Huntingtower
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