The Path of the King

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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.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER

Prologue
Epilogue

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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