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What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of history's...
Greenmantle John Buchan - Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two...
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,...
Set in 1914, during World War I, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is a novel by Scottish novelist, historian, biographer John Buchan (1875 – 1940): Richard Hannay, the protagonist and narrator and an expatriate...
"The Courts of the Morning" was written in 1929 by Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician John Buchan (1875–1940), telling the events of a public revolution in the fictional country of Olifa,...
Mr. Standfast John Buchan - Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle. The title...
In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although...
The 39 Steps is a melodrama adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept and production of a four-actor version of the story was by Simon Corble...
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan - John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Hannay and became a foundational work in the spy-thriller genre. Taking...
John Macnab John Buchan - Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Tory Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General;...
In 'Lord Minto, A Memoir' by John Buchan, the author provides a captivating account of the life of Gilbert Elliot, the 4th Earl of Minto. Buchan skillfully combines historical facts with vivid storytelling...
Die Handlung spielt zur Zeit des Jakobitenaufstandes von 1745, als eine Armee schottischer Hochländer, die Charles Stuart auf den englischen Thron setzen wollte, bis nach Süden in England vordrang. Der...
Ein übler alter Schurke namens Albinus, sowie Troth, der Sohn eines der anderen Schurken, planen zusammen einen Rachefeldzug gegen die Nachkommen ihres früheren Gegners Haraldsen. Sie versammeln eine...
The first two decades of the twentieth century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved....
Voici le livre dont a été tiré le célèbre film d'Alfred Hitchcock: Richard Hannay, de retour d'Afrique du sud, s'ennuie dans son pays, l'Angleterre, et pense à repartir lorsqu'un locataire de son immeuble,...
Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to flee....
John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was...
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, „The Free Fishers” is classic Buchan and his last historical novel. It’s a fast-paced tale of treason, espionage and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. Andrews...
Premier roman mettant en scène Richard Hannay, sud-africain, ingénieur des mines et prospecteur. Hannay se retrouve mêlé à une aventure incroyable qui conduira à l’attenta de Sarajevo en juin 1914. Tout...
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in...
Here, from the father of spy fiction, is the grand sequence of his great master spy's adventures in three famous books: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast.
In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, "John MacNab"; three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure...
The Dancing Floor is a 1926 novel by John Buchan featuring Edward Leithen. It is the third of five novels written about the character of Leithen. Edward Leithen is an eminent lawyer who is introduced...
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking...
The Power House is the first adventure of the classic Buchan hero, the prosperous Scots lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen, whose measured daily routine of 'flat, chambers, flat, club' is enlivened by the...
Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together...
When Anthony Lammas, Kirk minister and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, sets off for business in London, little does he realise that he will soon be entangled in a web of conspiracy. But Anthony...
The turbulent 'Killing Times' of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals. John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from...
The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to suspect...
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