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Overview

A young mining engineer must elude both foreign agents and British authorities to save his own life and expose a plot with catastrophic implications for Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141441177
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/07/2004
Series: Penguin Classics Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 1,130,323
Product dimensions: 5.12(w) x 7.77(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

John Buchan (1875–1940) was Governor-General of Canada, biographer of Walter Scott and author of adventure thrillers. Featuring the daring exploits of Richard Hannay in the years before the Second World War his novels are still widely read today.

Kate Macdonald (Introduction and Further Reading) is a literary historian and publisher, and has published several books, chapters and articles on the life and work of John Buchan, including John Buchan. A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (2009), Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps (ed. 2009), and John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (ed. with Nathan Waddell, 2013). She was editor of the John Buchan Journal for eleven years. She lives in Bath.

Table of Contents

1. The man who died; 2. The milkman sets out on his travels; 3. The adventure of the literary innkeeper; 4. The adventure of the Radical candidate; 5. The adventure of the spectacled roadman; 6. The adventure of the bald archaeologist; 7. The dry-fly fisherman; 8. The coming of the Black Stone; 9. The thirty-nine steps; 10. Various parties converging on the sea.
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