tailieunhanh - TheThirtyNineSteps by John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 colour remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television | THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by JOHN BUCHAN Prepared and Published by Ebd TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE My Dear Tommy You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the dime novel and which we know as the shocker the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts. . 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 Ebd .