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Witch Wood (World's Classics) (Paperback)

by John Buchan (Author), J.C.G. Greig (Editor)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 356 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (18 Nov 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192829416
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192829412
  • Product Dimensions: 18.7 x 11.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 459,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In The Witch Wood (1927) John Buchan brings all the tension of his wartime thrillers to a complex story of witchcraft in the ancient Wood of Caledon in the Scottish Borders. It is a stirring and challenging tale of seventeenth-century devilry, combatted in vain by David Sempill, the parish minister, who is hindered by the hypocrisy of his parishioners and his fellow-ministers' cant. In the background, meanwhile, the civil unrest of the Scottish Wars of the Covenant tears David's loyalties between his love of his calling and his admiration for the Marquis of Montrose, the leading opponent of the extreme Covenanters. Witch Wood also tells a love story that owes much to the ballads Buchan learned from his father and is infused with a subtle, other-worldly longing, nourished by the author's knowledge of Dante, Plato, and Virgil. The Dark Wood is not merely Scottish: it is the classical and medieval symbol for the subliminal powers which challenge reason in every age. This book is intended for general readers, Buchan fans, readers of Scottish fiction.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Corruptio optime pessime, 1 Sep 2008
By Mr. John Wusteman "JW" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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'Witchwood ' is a marvellous invocation of an age when religion dominated life to a degree we cannot fully comprehend. Calvinism, the accepted religious model, taught that salvation was a free gift of God, unmerited by the saved and impossible to lose once you were part of the elect. Some Scots, including , historically, Major Thomas Weir of Edinburgh, went the next logical step and concluded that nothing was forbidden to them, including the practice of witchcraft! Witchwood is a fictional account of such an episode by an author, deeply knowledgeable about Scottish history and the Scottish temperament. Well worth reading, and deeply disturbing as it is about real fault-lines in the human psyche, not made-up demons.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the effort!, 16 Jun 2008
By B. Cronin "hart-reaver" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Just to counter the other review here - by someone who didn't even finish the book! Witch Wood, for me, is one of Buchan's best. Brilliant recreation of the period, fabulous detail, wonderful atmosphere and a cracking story. I would agree, to some degree, that the book can be tough going - but in the Oxford World's Classics edition pictured here you get loads of helpful background, in the introduction and notes - shame this edition is no longer in print, then, I guess! Seek out the novel all the same, it really is a fine work.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not Buchan's best, 28 Jan 2007
By S. Barnes (UK) - See all my reviews
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I've read a few John Buchan books and enjoyed them. This one, however, I really struggled to get into and had to give up... so I confess my rating is based on a book only half read. The Scots dialect in the book is very strong and frequently used, so if you are a stranger to it you may struggle like me! There are references to the back of the book so that you can look up expressions you're not familiar with, but the frequency of needing to look them up, I found detracted from the story itself. I'm sure somebody else would enjoy this... but it definitely wasn't for me!
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