The HalfHearted is a 1900 novel of romance and adventure by the Scottish author John Buchan. It was Buchans first novel in a modern setting and was written when he was 24 while working for an AllSouls fellowship and reading for the bar. In Clubland Heroes (1953, revised 1974), Richard Usborne suggested that this novel is in some ways more revealing of the Buchan decentfellow ethic than any other till the last, Sick Heart River, with Haystouns death to some extent foreshadowing that of Edward Leithen in the later work. Buchan was only 25 when he completed The HalfHearted, and had not at that stage quite found his wavelength. But in Haystoun there is much of his later characters Sandy Arbuthnot and Richard Hannay.David Daniell, writing in 1975, considered the novel to be flawed but interesting. He felt the book weakest in its depiction of London clubs and upper class manners and conversation, but noted other areas that show "flashes of the true Buchan gift". Buchan worked through several of the themes that did not quite succeed in this novel, and returned to them with more assurance in later years, particularly in Mr Standfast (1919), Huntingtower (1922) and John Macnab (1925).Writing for the John Buchan Society website in 2001, Christine Drews noted that this novel is the one most influenced by John Buchans study of Greek tragedy. She held that the works conclusion illumines a path of understanding that can provide perspective on small reallife disappointments and missed...

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