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John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the run from a manhunt that never seems to end, to hide in remote Scottish moorland. Disguise and deception are his only weapons, as he struggles to decode the clues left by the murdered man to prevent the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since its first publication and has been filmed three times, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Thirty-Nine Steps was also a powerful influence on the development of the detective novel, the action romance, and the spy story.… (plus d'informations)
Fini, l'oisiveté ! Avec le meurtre de Scudder, Richard Hannay se trouve, du jour au lendemain, mêlé à une extraordinaire aventure. Au centre de l'histoire: une organisation secrète, mais terriblement puissante, un complot international et... un mot de code incompréhensible. Pour rassembler les morceaux de ce puzzle déconcertant, Richard Hannay n'a que vingt jours devant lui... Vingt jours pendant lesquels on va voir ce flegmatique Britannique fuir à travers toute l'Ecosse, se travestir pour échapper à ses poursuivants, mettre le feu aux poudres d'un étrange château et sortir vivant - mais de justesse - des griffes de ses adversaires. Une véritable course contre la montre dont le héros sortira... à bout de souffle! ( )
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TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON (LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)
My Dear Tommy, You and I have long cherished an affection for that elementary type of tale which Americans call the 'dime novel' and which we know as the 'shocker' - the romance where the incidents defy probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.
J. B.
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I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.
Richard Hannay is not, on the face of it, the most exciting of adventurers, yet more than any other hero he has come to embody the man of action pitted against the forces of misrule. (Introduction, some editions)
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But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki.
John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the run from a manhunt that never seems to end, to hide in remote Scottish moorland. Disguise and deception are his only weapons, as he struggles to decode the clues left by the murdered man to prevent the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since its first publication and has been filmed three times, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Thirty-Nine Steps was also a powerful influence on the development of the detective novel, the action romance, and the spy story.
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Une véritable course contre la montre dont le héros sortira... à bout de souffle! (