''The Dancing Floor'' is a 1926 novel by

John Buchan John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career ...

featuring

Edward Leithen Sir Edward Leithen is a fictional character in several of John Buchan's novels: ''The Power-House'', ''John Macnab'', '' The Dancing Floor'', '' The Gap in the Curtain'' and ''Sick Heart River''. These were published over a number of years, the fir ...

. It is the third of five novels written about the character of Leithen.

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 Mary Francis Butts, (13 December 1890 – 5 March 1937) also Mary Rodker by marriage, was an English modernist writer. Her work found recognition in literary magazines such as '' The Bookman'' and ''The Little Review'', as well as from fellow mo ...

in a 1933 essay described ''The Dancing Floor'' as "one of the first novels to owe its origin to ''

The Golden Bough ''The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion'' (retitled ''The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'' in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir ...

''".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.

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

References

External links

* * 1926 British novels Novels by John Buchan Hodder & Stoughton books Novels set in Greece {{1920s-novel-stub