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The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan John
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Art of the Novella Ser.
When the night came, he went to the meeting-place, and quietly let himself be blindfolded. Raw as Honor de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella--never before published as a stand-alone book--is perhaps the most outlandish thing he ever wrote. While still concerned with the depiction of the undersi ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
My guest was lying sprawled on his back, there was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor . . . 'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international conseq ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by Christopher T. (EDT) John; Harvie Buchan
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary
A special edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. When a strange man turns up on his doorstep with stories of spies and assassinations, Richard Hannay is drawn into the murky world of international espionage. Four days late ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title is presented with an introduction by Stella Rimington. It's 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 he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the co ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic | Series: Classic Adventures Ser.
John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the run from a manhunt that never seems to end, to hide in remote Scottish moorland. Disguise and deception are his ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan; Kate Macdonald (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbou ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps (Heroes and Villains) by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroes and Villians Ser.
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 he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthle ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 3 Pearson English Reader by John Buchan
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Texts
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) 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: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more