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Witch Wood
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- Antony Ferguson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 23 May 2023
- Run Time
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.
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“[A] powerful, charming, and spiritually earnest novel.”
The Spectator (UK)
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Details
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- Antony Ferguson
- Duration
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 May 2023
- ISBN
- 9798200940097
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.
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