The Thirty Nine Steps (Illustrated) E-Book

John Buchan

• Herausgeber: Enhanced Media Publishing
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan’s groundbreaking espionage thriller featuring spy Richard Hannay, has been called the first great espionage novel. It has been embraced by each new generation and shows no sign of losing popularity.

Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy — and on the run from both the police and members of a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden.

The book has formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 color remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television.

Leseprobe

THE THIRTY NINE STEPS

by

JOHN BUCHAN

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. First published in 1915. 

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Printed in the United States of America.

First Printing, 2015. 

Enhanced Media Publishing.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE - The Man Who Died

CHAPTER TWO - The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels

CHAPTER THREE - The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper

CHAPTER FOUR - The Adventure of the Radical Candidate

CHAPTER FIVE - The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman

CHAPTER SIX - The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

CHAPTER SEVEN - The Dry-Fly Fisherman

CHAPTER EIGHT - The Coming of the Black Stone

CHAPTER NINE - The Thirty-Nine Steps

CHAPTER TEN - Various Parties Converging on the Sea

BRITISH SPIES IMAGE GALLERY

Scottish author John Buchan (1875-1940) was also the 15th Governor General of Canada

John Buchan’s title was Lord Tweedsmuir. Here he is in Native headdress, 1937.

John Buchan, circa 1936

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) immortalized John Buchan with his film version of The Thirty Nine Steps (The 39 Steps) which was a loose adaptation of the novel

Rare first edition of Greenmantle from 1916

Buchan’s friend Aubrey Herbert seen here was rumored to be the inspiration for the character of Sandy Arbuthnot, Hannay's resourceful polyglot contact

Riddle of the Sands author Erskine Childers in uniform of the City Imperial Volunteers (C.I.V), 1899

Childers and wife Mary “Moll” Alden aboard Childers’ yacht Asgard on a Baltic cruise, 1910

First edition cover of Bulldog Drummond

Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (1888 – 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile, published under the name H. C. McNeile and the pseudonym Sapper

US cover of No Man's Land, published in 1917

Lobby card for US screenings of the 1922 film, Bulldog Drummond

O. Henry was a literary model for McNeile

Poster for the 1922 film Bulldog Drummond, based on McNeile's play of the same name

William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer

CHAPTER ONE - The Man Who Died

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick. I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay,' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.'

It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile—not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.