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Rare and modern books

John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps

HarperPress, 2012

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Year of publication
2012
ISBN
9780007449934
Author
John Buchan
Pages
146
Volume
1
Publishers
HarperPress
Keyword
Fiction
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Languages
English
Inscribed
No
Condition
New
First edition
No

Description

Classic fiction. I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat. When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland and a spirited chase begins as he is pursued by the police and the German spies involved with stealing British plans. Buchan's tale unfolds into one of the seminal and most influential chase books, mimicked by many, yet unrivalled in the tension and mystery created by his writing. Buchan reveres Hannay as an ordinary man who puts his country's good before his own and the classic themes of the novel influenced many films and subsequent man-on-the-run novels.
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