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Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Thirty-nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20112012-08-23
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The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor'. Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well — the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
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Penguin Readers 3: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122013-08-23
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A man is killed in Richard Hannay's home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay's life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of the thirty-nine steps?
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 103 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20122011-06-18
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Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life — until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game — and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, The Thirty-Nine Steps established John Buchan as the original thriller writer and inspired many other novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock.
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Greenmantle
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and potentially devastating German plot to foment Holy War in the Islamic Near East, which could ignite a powder-keg and shake the balance of world power and the course of the war. Hannay is assisted by three intrepid companions: the suave, dashing, exotic and romantic Sandy Arbuthnot, the American — John Scantlebury Blenkiron, and the South African Boer Scout — Peter Pienaar.
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The Island of Sheep
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20091998-09-12
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In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villains.
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Mr Standfast
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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When Richard Hannay, the hero of «The Thirty-nine Steps», is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders. In his strange odyssey to unravel the most sinister of conspiracies — to defeat the allies in the West — he travels from an idyllic manor house in the Cotswolds to a provincial Garden City where pacifism is the order of the day, through Scotland and London under attack, and thence back to the trenches, and the greatest battle of the First World War. There, amid the devastation and the squalor, he finds both love and a horrifying glimpse of chemical warfare before the thrilling denoument in the skies above the battlefield.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (+ Audio CD)
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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A man is killed in Richard Hannay’s home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay’s life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of ‘the thirty-nine steps’?
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Greenmantle
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20122014-08-27
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley. Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.As well as being a gripping adventure story, Greenmantle is surprisingly modern in the concept of using a Jihad to mobilise Muslim forces, and is disturbingly relevant to the modern world.
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The Thirty-nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 152 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102009-12-23
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Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1993 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20091994-12-30
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When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After a corpse is found in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both the conspirators and the law, and a manhunt ensues.
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Three Hostages
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20091998-09-30
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Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of «The Thirty-Nine Steps», «Greenmantle» and «Mr Standfast», has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife and young son. There, news comes to him of three kidnappings and a plot of political and financial magnitude that would shake the world.
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The Complete Richard Hannay Stories
Автор: John Buchan Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2010 Страниц: 990 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122015-08-24
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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the 'thirty-nine steps'. In Greenmantle, he undertakes a vital mission to prevent jihad in the Islamic Near East. Mr Standfast', set in the decisive months of 1917-18, is the novel in which Hannay, after a life lived 'wholly among men', finally falls in love; later, in The Three Hostages, he finds himself unravelling a kidnapping mystery with his wife's help. In the last adventure, The Island of Sheep, he is called upon to honour an old oath. A shrewd judge of men, he never dehumanises his enemy, and despite sharing some of the racial prejudices of his day, Richard Hannay is a worthy prototype hero of espionage fiction.
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