tailieunhanh - The Thirty-Nine Steps

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 that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as sodawater that has been standing in the sun. ‘Richard Hannay,’ I kept. | The THiRty-NiNE Steps By John Buchan Published by Planet eBook. Visit the site to download free eBooks of classic literature books and novels. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial United States License. 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. . Free eBooks at Planet