The Moon Endureth

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The Moon Endureth
The Moon Endureth by John Buchan, first edition cover, 1912.png
First edition 1912
Author John Buchan
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story and poetry collection
Set inVarious
Publisher W Blackwood & Sons [1]
Publication date
1912 [1]
Media typePrint
Pages324 [1]

The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. [2]

Contents

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]

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. Buchan, John (1912). The Moon Endureth. W Blackwood & Sons. British Library catalogue entry
  3. Hathi catalogue entry . Retrieved 15 December 2016.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. Athenaeum review quoted in Lownie, Andrew (2013). John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier. Thistle Publishing. pp. 116–117. ISBN   978-1909609990.