The Thirty-Nine Steps - format ePub

It is 1915. Richard Hannay is convalescing from wounds received fighting in France, when he is approached by Sir Walter Bullivant of British Intelligence. Bullivant's son has been working undercover in...

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...

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over...

During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment-in England and abroad, during long...

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Published in 1919, Mr. Standfast is a thriller set in the latter half of the First World War, and the third of John Buchan’s books to feature...

"I returned to the City about three o‘clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it." So opens John Buchans The Thirty-Nine...

After a long stay in South Africa, Richard Hannay arrives back in London just before the outbreak of World War One. There he meets Franklin Scudder, who claims to be investigating the Black Stone – a...

In this story, John Buchan explores Africa together with his friend Lawson. During their expedition, they find an astonishing place and they decide to settle there. But after a while John decides to leave...

Pierwsza w historii literatury wielka powieść szpiegowska trzyma w napięciu kolejne pokolenie czytelników! Richard Hannay jest brytyjskim szpiegiem, który wspiera amerykańskiego agenta w jego tajnej misji...

In his 'World War I - 9 Book Collection', John Buchan masterfully weaves a tapestry of narratives that explore the multifaceted experiences of the Great War. With a distinctive literary style that fuses...

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L'un des 100 meilleurs thrillers de tous les temps selon The Guardian, Les 39 Marches a été adapté au cinéma par Alfred Hitchcock avant de devenir une mini-série Netflix avec Benedict Cumberbatch dans...

1745. Agent de Charles Stuart qui entreprend la reconquête du trône anglais, le jeune Alastair Maclean croise les destinées de Midwinter, curieux seigneur des marges anglaises ; de la belle Claudia Norreys...

Une course poursuite haletante entre l'Écosse et Londres où le héros trouve un cadavre dans son salon. Une organisation secrète cherche par tous les moyens à déclencher la guerre entre l'Allemagne et...

S’il demeure relativement inconnu dans la plupart des pays francophones, John Buchan est pourtant considéré outre-Manche comme un auteur quasiment majeur, notamment réputé pour son attachement à ses terres...

Considéré comme un des cent meilleurs livres d'aventures, ce roman qui se déroule au début du XXème siècle, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, raconte les péripéties de quatre aventuriers lachés à la...

Les Trente-neuf marches John BuchanTexte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Cet ouvrage...

Frère d'armes de Richard Hannay — le héros des "Trente-neuf marches" — le jeune avocat anglais Edward Leithen se trouve confronté ici à une puissante et mystérieuse confrérie criminelle nommée "la Centrale...

Classique parmi les classiques du roman d'espionnage, "Les Trente-neuf marches" relate les péripéties de Richard Hannay, ancien ingénieur des mines en Afrique du Sud. Revenu à Londres après avoir fait...

Le Prophète au manteau vert John BuchanTexte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Dick...

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,...

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...

John Buchan (1875-1940)"J’achevais de déjeuner et je bourrais ma pipe lorsqu’on me remit la dépêche de Bullivant.Ceci se passait à Furling, la grande maison de campagne du Hampshire où j’étais venu terminer...

John Buchan (1875-1940)"Cet après-midi de mai, je revins de la City vers les 3 heures, complètement dégoûté de vivre. Trois mois passés dans la mère patrie avaient suffi à m’en rassasier. Si quelqu’un...

John Buchan’s "The Thirty-Nine steps" is a 1915 spy novel set in London and Scotland, during the few weeks preceding the outbreak of World War One. Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 cinematographic...

The girl came into the room with a darting movement like a swallow, looked round her with the same birdlike quickness, and then ran across the polished floor to where a young man sat on a sofa with one...

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Note to self: no matter how desperate you are, do not move in with someone you just met. They may end up as your best friend, or a serial killer. Turns out, Vic is both. 

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After Jason's girlfriend, Tyra, is murdered in a brutal gang attack, he is left alone with the grief of losing someone he held so dear.  The young couple were getting to know each other, but now it seems...

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