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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 8 minutes "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is an...
“Mr Standfast” is a spy novel featuring Richard Hannay, written by John Buchan and published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton. Richard Hannay is recalled from the Western Front by his good friend Bullivant in order to be assigned a new mission. As always, the whole...
John Buchan’s "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart...
"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The...
John Buchan’s "The Thirty-Nine steps" is a 1915 spy novel set in London and Scotland, during the few weeks preceding the outbreak of World War One. Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 cinematographic adaptation, "The Thirty-Nine steps" is Buchan’s most famous...
It is 1915. Richard Hannay is convalescing from wounds received fighting in France, when he is approached by Sir Walter Bullivant of British Intelligence. Bullivant's son has been working undercover in the Middle East.It seems that the Germans with their Turkish Allies...
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 thatI would have been feeling like thatI should have laughed at him;...
I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe whenI got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire whereI had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade.I flung him the...
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the...
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. LittleI knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. ButI mind yet the cold grue of terrorI got from...
Set in the early years of the 19th century, this story is a tale of conspiracy, secret societies, foreign agents and a fiendish plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. Anthony Lammas, a young professor of philosophy at St Andrews, becomes involved with a secret society...
John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is a landmark in spy and adventure fiction, first published in 1915 and still regarded as one of the most thrilling tales of its kind. Introducing the now-iconic hero Richard Hannay, the novel set the stage for generations of...
"Sick Heart River" is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchan's last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan's own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise. "Sick Heart River" finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing...
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician. Buchan was an incredibly prolific writer, producing countless novels and works of non-fiction, many based on his time spent working for the colonial administrator of South Africa. His...
During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment-in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear,...
From the heart of a great hill land Glenavelin stretches west and south to the wider Gled valley, where its stream joins with the greater water in its seaward course. Its head is far inland in a place of mountain solitudes, but its mouth is all but on the lip of the...
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