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James Buchan

Born

in Scotland

June 11, 1954

Genre

Fiction, History

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James Buchan is a Scottish novelist and historian who writes on aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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Average rating: 3.6 · 1,778 ratings · 268 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences 3.75 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Persian Bride 3.18 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money 3.72 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind 3.44 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World 3.57 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas 3.36 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Law: A Scottish Adventurer in the Eighteenth Century 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Street Shaken by Light 3.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gate of Air 2.18 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Street Shaken by Light: The Story of William Neilson, Volume I 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My wages came to me not to satisfy any need-- mine were anyway private, affectionate, atrocious-- but to make my needs universal: to incorporate me in the mainstream of men and things in which my work was not for me but for everybody; and to take what was special in me, my most secure and precious sense of myself, and make it general and banal. In short, I was to be civilized.”
― James Buchan, Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money

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“Luck and Joy and Grief and I

Set off together into the world of existence

Luck lay down and Joy ran off

But Grief and I go wandering on.”
― James Buchan, The Persian Bride

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“Because of an insularity among Englishmen, the country had been much represented abroad by foreigners. Under William III, those were Dutchmen, French Huguenots and Swiss and, in the later years of Anne's reign, by Scots now citizens of Great Britain.”
― James Buchan, John Law: A Scottish Adventurer in the Eighteenth Century

tags: english-diplomacy, english-insularity

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