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Thirty-Nine Steps (Wordsworth Classics)
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Classic / British English A man is killed in Richard Hannay's home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay's life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of 'the thirty-nine steps'?
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Authorised Edition
Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian
Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
In The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the best-known of his thrillers (made into a popular movie by Alfred Hitchcock), John Buchan introduces his most enduring hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow," is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described ordinary fellow stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he encounters an American agent seeking help...
The 39 Steps
An effortless adventure classic spanning the void between dime shocker and quality literature, John Buchan's "The 39 Steps" still satisfies after many reads. Richard Hannay returned to England, after making his fortune in South Africa, is unwillingly ensnared in a tortured plot...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is Scottish author John Buchan's most successful work. Published in 1915 and set during the early days of the First World War, it is the first of Buchan's stories of Richard...
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS John Buchan - Hardcover
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Warbler Classics Annotat...
As war looms in Europe, Richard Hannay returns from Rhodesia to his home in London. His neighbor, an American freelance spy named Franklin Scudder, claims to know of an assassination plot to destabilize Europe. When Hannay finds Scudder dead in his flat he is drawn into a...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first...
Red Classics Thirty Nine Steps
The 39 Steps
Patrick Barlow's Olivier Award winning stage adaptation, based on John Buchan's gripping whodunit - memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 - is now in its seventh year at the Criterion Theatre in the West End. Nothing has been cut from this hilarious and spectacular version...
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa...
The 39 Steps (The Franklin Library of Mystery M...
Red Classics Thirty Nine Steps
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - The novel is set during the time of May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe and Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in central London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order...
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Annotated Edition (Alma ...
When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Richard Hannay, a restless hero, is set to show the integrity of the ordinary man who stands in defence of his country. Buchan's terrific yarn excelled as a Hitchcock movie of the same name, and inspired all subsequent spy thrillers, including the much later incarnation of Fleming's...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The first of five novels featuring action hero Richard Hannay, and the basis for the classic Hitchcock film May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger...
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