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?

The thirty-nine steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps Level 3

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 that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay, ' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.' It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile-not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.

The Thirty Nine Steps

Le Prophète au manteau vert

John Buchan
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Dick Hannay se voit confier une mission secrète de la plus haute importance : trouver ce qui se trame en Turquie, et qui pourrait changer la face de la Grande guerre. Aidé par trois personnes : d'un américain, d'un de ses amis Dick, et d'un vieux casseur Australien, ils doivent gagner la Turquie. Dick Hannay, quant à lui, se retrouve en Allemagne. Un roman de 580 000 caractères.
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Le prophète au manteau vert

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

S'il fallait proposer une liste des grands romans d'apprentissage anglo-saxons, assurément on retiendrait ce texte aventureux qui nous fait voyager au XVIIème siècle, de la brumeuse Écosse à la lumineuse mais inquiétante Virginie indienne. Parti pour être un sage et avisé négociant, le jeune Galvard se trouve entraîné dans une série d'aventures qui le conduiront en pays indien, chez les Cherokees de funeste réputation, à la merci des pirates et des colons qui refusent de l'aider, toujours en quête d'un amour éperdu qui lui fait franchir monts et rivières pour atteindre un introuvable Graal, une forme de vérité qui lui permettra de découvrir quel roi sommeille en lui. On lit cette épopée avec l'innocent plaisir que l'on prenait aux découvertes adolescentes.
Réjouissant comme la jeunesse !

Salut aux aventuriers

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 m'eût prédit un an plus tôt que j'en arriverais là, je lui aurais ri au nez ; pourtant c'était un fait. Le climat me rendait mélancolique, la conversation de la généralité des Anglais me donnait la nausée ; je ne prenais pas assez d'exercice, et les plaisirs de Londres me paraissaient fades comme de l'eau de Seltz qui est restée au soleil. 

- Richard Hannay, mon ami, me répétais-je, tu t'es trompé de filon, il s'agirait de sortir de là.

Je me mordais les lèvres au souvenir des projets que j'avais échafaudés pendant ces dernières années à Buluwayo. En y amassant mon pécule - il y en a de plus gros, mais je le trouvais suffisant -, je m'y étais promis des plaisirs de toutes sortes. Emmené loin de l'Écosse par mon père dès l'âge de six ans, je n'étais pas revenu au pays depuis lors : l'Angleterre m'apparaissait donc comme dans un rêve des Mille et Une Nuits, et je comptais m'y établir pour le restant de mes jours. 

Mais je fus vite désillusionné." 

Richard Hannay, ancien ingénieur des mines, regrette d'avoir quitté l'Afrique du Sud pour l'Angleterre où il s'ennuie. La découverte d'un cadavre dans son salon va redonner du piment à son existence : le voilà embarqué dans une affaire d'espionnage et il devra sauver sa peau...

Les trente-neuf marches

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 agents. Guided by his contact-and love interest-Mary Lamington, Hannay tracks his enemy from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands, eventually confronting him in a dramatic climax above the battlefields of Europe. Revisiting the memorable characters from The Thirty-Nine Steps, Mr. Standfast is one of two Richard Hannay novels set during the First World War. The Thirty-Nine Steps and its four sequels established John Buchan as an original thriller writer, and a pioneer of espionage fiction. HarperPerennialClassics 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.

Mr. Standfast

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 a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet mind.

As we slipped up the Thames valley on the smooth Great Western line I had reflected ruefully on the thorns in the path of duty. For more than a year I had never been out of khaki, except the months I spent in hospital. They gave me my battalion before the Somme, and I came out of that weary battle after the first big September fighting with a crack in my head and a D. S. O. I had received a C. B. for the Erzerum business, so what with these and my Matabele and South African medals and the Legion of Honour, I had a chest like the High Priest's breastplate. I rejoined in January, and got a brigade on the eve of Arras. There we had a star turn, and took about as many prisoners as we put infantry over the top. After that we were hauled out for a month, and subsequently planted in a bad bit on the Scarpe with a hint that we would soon be used for a big push.

The thirty-nine steps

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