Fiction · 1915
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps, first published in 1915, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter I — The Man Who Died
- Chapter II — The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels
- Chapter III — The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
- Chapter IV — The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
- Chapter V — The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
- Chapter VI — The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist
- Chapter VII — The Dry-Fly Fisherman
- Chapter VIII — The Coming of the Black Stone
- Chapter IX — The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Chapter X — Various Parties Converging on the Sea
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1875–1940 · Modern
John Buchan (1875–1940) was born in Perth, Scotland, the son of a Free Church of Scotland minister, and educated at Glasgow and Oxford. He practised law, worked as a publisher and Conservative MP, and served as Director of Information during the First World War before turning increasingly to writing. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) introduced Richard Hannay and the chase thriller that made him famous, followed by four more Hannay novels and dozens of other books — histories, biographies, over a hundred works in total. In 1935 he was appointed Governor General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir; he died in office in Montreal in 1940, of injuries from a fall.
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