Londres, 1914. Lorsque Richard Hannay découvre le corps du mystérieux Franklin Scudder dans son appartement, c'est le début d'une véritable course contre la montre. Notre héros, ancien ingénieur des mines, n'aura que vingt jours pour dénouer un complot international, échapper à une organisation criminelle et comprendre la signification d'un étrange nom de code : « les trente- neuf marches ».

Les 39 marches

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 new Power-House recruit, to restore stability to the Western system. With keen intellect and instincts, John Buchan's indomitable Sir Edward Leithen features prominently in several other novels, including John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, and Sick Heart River. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Power-House

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"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The Power-House. "The power-house" was first serialised in Blackwood's magazine and then was released as a book in 1916. Preceding the famous The Thirty-Nine steps, little known, The Power-House is a fascinating spy novel. Filled with considerations about civilization and chaos, Nietzschean references, predictions about the future, Buchan's "The Power-House" is political philosophy wrapped into a thriller inside conspiracy theory. A must-read, if only for the first encounter between the hero & narrator and the head of the Power-House. Discover The Power-House with an original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

Richard Hannay, ex-ingénieur des mines en Afrique du Sud et général de brigade mais surtout incorrigible détective amateur, découvre un cadavre au beau milieu de son salon. Il s'avère qu'une organisation secrète ultra-puissante fomente un complot international aux objectifs les plus noirs... Richard Hannay se retrouve alors seul face à des adversaires des plus sanguinaires et seulement vingt jours pour échapper à ses poursuivants, fuir à travers l'Ecosse, déjouer les stratagèmes de la " Pierre Noire ", sauver l'Europe et la paix... Vingt jours d'une course infernale qu'il faut absolument gagner. John Buchan fut l'incontestable précurseur du roman d'espionnage contemporain. Alfred Hitchcock adapte Les Trente-Neuf marches au cinéma en 1935.

Les Trente-neuf marches

Les Trente-neuf marches
John Buchan
Texte 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 a fait l'objet d'une transposition au cinéma par Alfred Hitchcock. Un locataire de l'immeuble de Richard Hanna propose à ce dernier un travail digne de Sherlock Holmese. Notre apprenti détective se retrouve en possession d'un carnet contenant une énigme que lui a laissé Scudder, qui a été assassiné entre temps. Que signifient donc ces 39 marches ?... Un roman de 244 000 caractères.
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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 l'Angleterre en ce début de XXème siècle. Y parviendront-ils ?

Set just before the onset of the First World War, The Thirty-Nine Steps introduces one of literature's most memorable detectives, Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who has just returned to London from South Africa. Four days after hearing of an assassination plot and plans to steal Britain's military strategies, Hannay's informant is found dead in his apartment. Forced to flee from both the murderers and the police, Hannay must use his wits to stay ahead of his pursuers and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, The Thirty-Nine Steps is regarded as the starting point for espionage fiction and established John Buchan as the original thriller writer. The Thirty-Nine Steps, the first book in the Richard Hannay series, inspired many others novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock who directed the first of four film adaptations of the novel. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?

Les 39 marches

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