Paganism, Christianity and adventure
BUCHAN, John. The Dancing Floor. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1926].
8vo. Original blue cloth bound with black lettering to upper board and spine as well as author's initials; pp. [8], 7-311, [7, ads]; pictorial dust jacket slightly browned to spine with light spotting to fore-edges; slight offsetting to prelims, otherwise a very good copy; author's signature to title-page.
First edition, signed by Buchan.
'Plakos is a strange place, for the tides of civilisation and progress seem to have left it high and dry. It is a relic of old days, full of wild beliefs and pagan habits'.
The Dancing Floor is Buchan's third Edward Leithen novel and an unusual melding of genres, being an intoxicating thriller infused with romantic obsession and as much a love story as an analysis of the conflict between the practice of Paganism and the worship of Christianity.
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