The Dancing Floor

The Dancing Floor is a 1926 novel by John Buchan featuring Edward Leithen. It is the third of five novels written about the character of Leithen.

This article is about the novel by John Buchan. For the episode of Doctor Who, see The Celestial Toymaker.
The Dancing Floor
First US edition
AuthorJohn Buchan
CountryScotland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesEdward Leithen
PublisherHodder & Stoughton (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date
1926
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)

Basic Plot Summary

Edward Leithen is an eminent lawyer who is introduced to the young and handsome Vernon Milburne. By chance, Leithen meets Milburne once again and they become close friends. Milburne divulges that since childhood he has had a recurring dream in which an impending and unknown threat approaches year by year. The year in which the threat is due to occur, the two friends find themselves on the Greek island of Plakos where they must save the beautiful Koré Arabin from the superstitious islanders.

Mary Butts in a 1933 essay described The Dancing Floor as "one of the first novels to owe its origin to The Golden Bough.[1]

Characters
  • Sir Edward Leithen - a lawyer and Tory MP
  • Vernon Milburne - a tall, handsome young man who first appears as aloof and detached
  • Koré Arabin - a stubborn and yet vulnerable daughter of a malicious miscreant
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gollark: Some sort of convoluted new model of the universe based on electricity or something does *not* do that.
gollark: Are you aware of the "correspondence principle"? It basically just means that your new theory has to match with all the previously found empirical evidence for other theories.
gollark: I don't think you understand what I'm asking here.
gollark: How can you distinguish these "birkeland currents" from the well-known and documented phenomenon of "gravity" and whatever else?

References
  1. Butts, Mary (1933). "Ghosties and Ghoulies: The Uses of the Supernatural in English Fiction". Ashe of Rings and Other Writings. Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co., p. 345.
  • The Dancing Floor at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Buchan, John. "The Dancing Floor (1926)". Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 29 December 2016.


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