The Thirty-Nine Steps
by
John Buchan
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108059414
ISBN-13
9781108059411
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 3rd, 2013
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersClassic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Espionage & spy thrillerEspionage and spy thriller
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This 1915 spy story by John Buchan (1875–1940) is archetypal of the genre in which a British hero thwarts foreign enemies. Although the book is an exciting, if occasionally implausible, adventure story, it may be marred for a modern readership by the racism and anti-Semitism it expresses.
This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875–1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935). Curiously, although all keep the theme of German espionage which will trigger a world war, none of them sticks at all closely to Buchan's original plot. This is the first of five novels in which Richard Hannay, formerly a mining engineer in colonial Africa, now a patriotic gentleman of leisure, finds himself pitted against the enemies of the British Empire. Although the book is an exciting, if occasionally implausible, adventure story, it may be marred for a modern readership by the racism and anti-Semitism it expresses, though this was not exceptional for the period. The writing is also noticeable, however, for lyrical descriptions of the Scottish border country in which Buchan himself grew up.
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