The Path of the King

The Path of the King (1921)
by John Buchan

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"In this sequence of fourteen picturesque, episodic short stories John Buchan has endeavored to create a line of imagined forebears from whom, beginning with a ninth century Norse sea rover, in the succeeding ages Abraham Lincoln's ancestors might have been directly descended. Each one of the tales takes place within a glamorous historical setting, peopled by illustrious figures of the times—kings, knights, warriors, famous generals, courtiers, great leaders and adventurers," ... "Several of the tales assume in the reader a wider knowledge of general European history than is the average person's store, and these in consequence are likely to seem vaguely coherent and dubiously interesting to the inadequately informed."—Review in The Outlook, June 1921

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THE PATH
OF THE KING

BY
JOHN BUCHAN

AUTHOR OF
"Mr. Standfast,"Greenmantle,
"Prester John," etc

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

To
MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THESE CHAPTERS
FIRST READ BY A COTSWOLD FIRE

Linum fumigans non exstinguet; in veritate educet judicium.

Isa. xlii. 3.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1940, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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The Path of the King

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