Greenmantle - 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...

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....

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...

From the heart of a great hill land Glenavelin stretches west and south to the wider Gled valley, where its stream joins with the greater water in its seaward course. Its head is far inland in a place...

‘Greenmantle’ is the second of five John Buchan novels in which we follow the adventures and exploits of Brigadier-General Richard Hannay. In ‘Greenmantle’ we reunite with Richard Hannay, as he rests...

"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 Buchan´s The Thirty-Nine...

This ebook compiles John Buchan's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr. Standfast", "John Macnab", "The Island of Sheep" and "The Watcher...

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician. Buchan was an incredibly prolific writer, producing countless novels and works of non-fiction, many based on his time...

Double agents, espionage and romance, this historical story transports you back to the Jacobite rising in 1745 and in the midst of an attempt by Scottish highlanders to place Bonnie Prince Charlie on...

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...

When an international anarchist organization called The Power-House threatens to destroy Western civilization, lawyer and MP Edward Leithen must race against time and his friend Charles Pitt-Lumley, a...

Deployed to the Middle East during the First World War, British secret agent Richard Hannay must stop the Germans and Turks from creating an uprising in the Muslim World—an uprising that would prove devastating...

Recalled from duty on the Western Front by renowned spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, British secret agent Richard Hannay goes undercover as a pacifist, working to outwit a dangerous German spy and his...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fifteen year old Christopher is about to embark on an investigation...Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them.It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying...

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