The Thirty-nine Steps (Edwardian, #215) (Richard Hannay, #1) (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)

by Stacy Stephens, Gustavo Bondoni, and John Buchan

E. Ardizzone (Illustrator)

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Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The main character is Buchan's familiar hero, Richard Hannay who gets caught up quite suddenly on a dull London afternoon in a situation of extreme danger. Before he knows what is happening he is the obvious suspect for a murder committed in his own flat, and has to go on the run to his native Scotland.
  • ISBN10 0460050648
  • ISBN13 9780460050647
  • Publish Date 1 January 1945 (first published 1 October 1915)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 12 July 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 166
  • Language English