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020 $a9780007449934 (pbk.) :$cNT$70$
020 $a0007449933 (pbk.) :$cNT$70$
035 $a(OCoLC)813854991
035 $a768464
040 $aAU@$beng$cTWTNM@$dUKMGB$dTTU$dTWTNM
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100 1 $aBuchan, John,$d1875-1940.
245 14$aThe thirty-nine steps /$cJohn Buchan.
246 33$aThirty nine steps.
260 $aLondon :$bHarper Press,$c2012.
300 $aix, 146 p. ;$c18 cm.
490 1 $aCollins classics.
520 $aClassic fiction. I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat. When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland and a spirited chase begins as he is pursued by the police and the German spies involved with stealing British plans. Buchan's tale unfolds into one of the seminal and most influential chase books, mimicked by many, yet unrivalled in the tension and mystery created by his writing. Buchan reveres Hannay as an ordinary man who puts his country's good before his own and the classic themes of the novel influenced many films and subsequent man-on-the-run novels.
650 0$aHannay, Richard (Fictitious character)$vFiction.
650 0$aIntelligence service$zGreat Britain$vFiction.
651 0$aGalloway (Scotland)$vFiction.
655 7$aSuspense fiction.
655 7$aAdventure stories.
830 0$aCollins classics.