The House of the Four Winds
- The House of the Four Winds
"The House of the Four Winds" is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his three Dickson McCunn books.
It is set in the fictitious Central European country of Evallonia around 1930 and concerns the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy.
Although it might be viewed as "historical" from a 21st Century perspective it was a contemporary novel when it was written in 1935.
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* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301441h.html Gutenberg (Australia) text]
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