by John Buchan · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260803
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«The Thirty-Nine Steps» is John Buchan's spy novel, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Richard Hannay returns from Africa and becomes embroiled in a spy conspiracy aimed at destabilising British naval power. After finding a corpse in his flat, he flees pursued by the police and the conspirators in a breathless chase during the summer before the First World War.
First instalment of the Richard Hannay series. Wordsworth Classics edition with an introduction by Cedric Watts, professor at the University of Sussex. The novel was originally published in 1915.
Classic of the spy thriller, for readers of adventure and intrigue novels; inspired Alfred Hitchcock's famous film adaptation.
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.
