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Thirty Nine Steps
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In this 1915 story--possibly the first modern spy novel--Buchan's perennial protagonist, Richard Hannay, averts the assassination of a world leader.
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Greenmantle
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In this 1916 thriller Buchan's hero, Richard Hannay, and his intrepid associates stop a German-backed uprising in the Middle East.
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Prester John
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John Buchan's perennially popular adventure book for boys.
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The 39 Steps
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He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me - things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top, why alliances were made and broken, why certain men disappeared, and where the sinews of war came from.
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Mr Standfast
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During World War I, Buchan's perennial hero Richard Hannay (of "The Thirty-Nine Steps") is given the assignment of hunting down the most dangerous man in the world--and helping to determine the outcome of the war.
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Three Hostages
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Richard Hannay, retired to the country, craves adventure, and takes on the case of the kidnapping by anarchists of the daughter of the richest man in the world.
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The island of sheep
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Another thriller by John Buchan featuring his perennial hero, Richard Hannay of "The Thirty-Nine Steps." Buchan's "gentleman adventurer" was a huge contribution to the development of the modern spy novel.
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John Macnab
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Three adventurers from Buchan's other books seek excitement in their tame lives in an elaborate scheme to poach game from three Scottish estates.
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Huntingtower
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Buchan's hero, a Scottish grocer, teams up with a poet to investigate a house inhabited by two women, one of whom may be a princess in distress.
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Witch wood
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The path of the king
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), was a Scottish novelist and a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to British colonial administrator Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner for South ...
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Memory hold-the-door
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Castle Gay
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Another of Buchan's novels about Dickson McCunn, the retired Glasgow grocer.
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The Free Fishers
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A classic tale of espionage and adventure, set during the Napoleonic Wars. With the action ranging from the shores of Fife to the moors of Northumberland and the fens of East Anglia, The Free Fishers is one of Buchan's finest novels.
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Four Adventures Richard Hannay
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Sick Heart River
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Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. Sick Heart River is both John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed just days before his death.
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The Courts of the Morning
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The house of the four winds
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Oliver Cromwell
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Salute to adventurers
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When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gypsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel ...
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The Dancing Floor
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After reading The Dancing Floor, John Buchan's friend Greenslet wrote to the author, "I don't know when I have had more pleasure in reading one of your books. The essential fabric is highly romantic and attractive, and the handling and workmanship is, it seems to me, up to the level of the fable." The book's theme is that civilization can be ...
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Midwinter
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In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebel army is marching south into England. Alastair Maclean, one of the Prince's most loyal supporters, is sent ahead to carry out a secret mission. He is befriended by two extraordinary men-Dr. Samuel Johnson, an aspiring man of letters, and the shadowy figure known only as "Midwinter."
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Mountain meadow
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A prince of the captivity
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The gap in the curtain
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