Talk:Prester John (novel)

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Expansion needed[edit]

Per July 2018 Maintenance Template, this article needs more detail and balance to the long plot summary. I have added a little background to the lead and a brief note of the 1920 silent movie. Much more could be done; this novel is a pivot-point in Buchan's career, his first best-seller and first "ripping yarn" adventure; it raises controversial questions of race, sex and colonial policy.

Suggestions:

Editions
Fill out the novel's place as a turning point in Buchan's career
More on Buchan's experience in South Africa and how it informed the writing of the novel
Critical reception at the time of publication...and subsequently
See useful source: http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol2num1/stotesbury.pdf —

John Buchan's Prester John (1910) is a novel which occupies an ambiguous position in the imperial canon. 
It has hitherto been noted for its enduring qualities as a boys' adventure story and as a narrative
involved explicitly within the British imperial discourse of its time, which can be regarded as spanning the debate
initiated by the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), its temporary resolution in the passing of the Union of South Africa Act
(1909), and its implementation, which coincided in 1910 with the first publication of the novel. 
...et sqq.

--D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 07:22, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]