by John Buchan · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262258
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«Mr Standfast» is John Buchan's spy and adventure novel, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The novel follows Richard Hannay, a British officer on the Western Front of the First World War, summoned by the intelligence service for a secret mission. His investigation of an enemy conspiracy takes him from a mansion in the Cotswolds to a pacifist garden city, then to Scotland and a London under attack, and finally back to the trenches.
Third novel in the Richard Hannay series. Originally published in 1919; this English edition appeared in 1994 within Wordsworth Classics.
For readers of adventure and spy novels set during the First World War and for those seeking British classics of suspense.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
