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For readers who love short, quick adventures with a clear hero, an English setting and a growing menace. Hidden plans, dangerous ideas and a lawyer drawn beyond his usual life add to the appeal.
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The Power-House is a short adventure novel by John Buchan, the Scottish writer who later became famous for The Thirty-Nine Steps. It first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1913, in the last years of the Edwardian age, and was printed as a book a few years after. It is told by Edward Leithen, a lawyer and Member of Parliament, who is a steady and sensible man.
The book asks a plain question. What if the order you trust every day rests on very little? Buchan builds a story of hidden plans, quiet menace and a hunt that moves from comfortable London rooms toward danger. You get a fast read, a sharp villain and a lawyer who must act far outside his habits. The first point to look at is the calm man at the centre of it all.
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- 1A lawyer meets a dangerous ideaFree
- 2Andrew Lumley and the thin crust
- 3A search that turns into a struggle
- 4What the story says and how it is told
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A lawyer meets a dangerous idea
The story is told in the first person by Edward Leithen. He is a barrister, a man of law and reason, with a settled career and a circle of friends. He is the sort of person who believes that rules, courts and good manners keep the world steady. Buchan uses him as an ordinary, trustworthy guide, so the reader sees the strange things through sensible eyes.
Leithen is not a soldier or a spy. His training is in weighing evidence, spotting a weak argument and keeping his head. That makes him a good witness, because he does not leap to wild conclusions. When something troubling appears, he first tries to explain it in a normal way.
The book begins in the world of clubs, dinners and polite talk. This gives the later danger its force. Buchan shows a very safe life first, so that you feel how far Leithen has to travel from it. The question that drives the book is already in the air: how safe is that life, really?
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Questions about La casa de la energía
What is The Power-House by John Buchan about?
It is a short adventure novel in which a London lawyer, Edward Leithen, meets a quiet man with a dark theory about how easily civilisation could be broken, and is drawn into a dangerous struggle.
Who is Edward Leithen?
Leithen is a barrister and Member of Parliament who tells the story. Buchan used him in several books, as a steady, thoughtful man who rises to danger out of duty.
When was The Power-House written?
Buchan's story appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1913, in the Edwardian period, and was printed as a book a few years later. It is fiction, not a true account.
What does the title The Power-House mean?
A power-house is a place that makes and sends out energy. In the book the word points to a hidden centre of influence that can move events far from where it sits.
Is The Power-House hard to read?
No. It is short, written in clear prose and moves quickly. The plot and the central idea are easy to follow.