The Thirty-Nine Steps (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) (Paperback)

Buchan, John,Hannay, Richard,(fictitious Character)

ISBN 10: 1435110617 / ISBN 13: 9781435110618

Published by Sterling Publishing, 2009

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Thirty-Nine Steps (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) (Paperback)
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1435110617
• ISBN 13: 9781435110618
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

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 only weapons, as he struggles to decode the clues left by the murdered man to prevent the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power.

Buchan’s narrative voice has the easy authority of a government insider, with the smooth assurance of a man in the know. The Thirty-Nine Steps was a powerful influence on the development of the detective novel, the action romance, and the spy story.

About the Author

John Buchan (1875–1940) was a polymath who lived in the Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian eras, through the Boer War and the First World War. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Oxford, and his writing style shows a clear reliance on the solid foundations of a Victorian Presbyterian manse upbringing and his classical education. As well as being a writer for more than forty-five years, Buchan was a civil servant, a journalist, a publisher, a war propagandist, a historian and biographer, a member of Parliament, and finally, in 1935, ennobled as Lord Tweedsmuir, he was appointed governor-general of Canada.