The Moon Endureth
Author | John Buchan |
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Country | Various |
Language | English |
Genre | Short story and poetry collection |
Publisher | W Blackwood & Sons[1] |
Publication date | 1912[1] |
Media type | |
Pages | 324[1] |
The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan.[2]
Title[]
In an introduction to the collection Buchan quotes from an article on St Francis in Lives of the Saints: "To the righteous is promised abundance of peace while the moon endureth". Psalms 72:7 in the King James Version has "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth".
Content[]
The collection includes the following short stories and poems. The stories Streams of Water in the South and The Rime of True Thomas were reprinted from a former collection, Grey Weather. The remaining tales had all previously appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.[3]
- From the Pentlands Looking North and South (poem)
- I. The Company of the Marjolaine (short story)
- Avignon (poem)
- II. A Lucid Interval (short story)
- The Shorter Catechism (poem)
- III. The Lemnian (short story)
- Atta's Song (poem)
- IV. Space (short story)
- Stocks and Stones (poem)
- V. Streams of Water in the South (short story)
- The Gipsy's Song to the Lady Cassilis (poem)
- VI. The Grove of Ashtaroth (short story)
- Wood Magic (poem)
- VII. The Riding of Ninemileburn (short story)
- Plain Folk (poem)
- VIII. The Kings of Orion (short story)
- Babylon (poem)
- IX. The Green Glen (short story)
- The Wise Years (poem)
- X. The Rime of True Thomas (short story)
Critical reception[]
In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizarre". The collection was said to show "considerable imagination, and occasionally a touch of delicate satire".[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Buchan, John (1912). The Moon Endureth. W Blackwood & Sons. British Library catalogue entry
- ^ "Hathi catalogue entry". Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ Athenaeum review quoted in Lownie, Andrew (2013). John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier. Thistle Publishing. pp. 116–117. ISBN 978-1909609990.
External links[]
- The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies at Faded Page (Canada)
- 1912 poems
- 1912 short stories
- Hodder & Stoughton books
- Works by John Buchan
- British short story collections
- British poetry collections