"The Courts of the Morning" was written in 1929 by Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician John Buchan (1875–1940), telling the events of a public revolution in the fictional country of Olifa, on the west coast of South America, where an industrial tycoon tries to rule the world from his small little base, but the people want to control their life themselves ...

John Buchan (1875 – 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician ...