Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England
by John Buchan
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About This Book
Set in 1745, as Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebel army marches south into England,Midwintertells the story of Alastair Maclean, one of the Prince's most loyal supporters. Sent on ahead to carry out a secret mission of great importance for the Jacobite cause, Maclean is befriended by two extraordinary and very different men--Dr. Samuel Johnson, an impoverished tutor and aspiring man of letters; and the shadowy figure known only as 'Midwinter.' But England in 1745 is a land awash with double-dealing and betrayal, and, as his enemies close in on him, Maclean uncovers evidence that there is a traitor ...
Chapters (22)(click to expand)
- MIDWINTER
- Preface By the Editor
- I In which a Highland Gentleman Misses his Way
- II In which a Nobleman is Perplexed
- III In which Private Matters Cut Across Affairs of State
- IV Mr Kyd of Greyhouses
- V Chance-Medley
- VI Introduces the Runaway Lady
- VII How a Man May Hunt with the Hounds and yet Run with the Hare
- VIII Broom at the Cross-Roads
- IX Old England
- X Snowbound at the Sleeping Deer
- XI Night at the Same: Two Visitors
- XII The Hut in the Oak Shaw
- XIII Journeyman John
- XIV Duchess Kitty on the Road
- XV Bids Farewell to a Scots Laird
- XVI Bids Farewell to an English Lady
- XVII Ordeal of Honour
- XVIII In which Three Gentlemen Confess their Nakedness
- XIX Ramoth-Gilead
- Postscript
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