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  • Paperback: 1152 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (25 Feb 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140170596
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140170597
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,843 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Contains: Island of Sheep, Three Hostages, Mr Hostages, Mr Standfast, The 39 Steps.


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John Buchan (1875-1940) was born in Perth, Scotland and educated at Oxford where he published five books and won several awards, including one for poetry. He went on to be a barrister, a member of parliament, a soldier, a publisher, a historical biographer, and - in 1935 - he became the Govenor-General of Canada. Today he is best remembered as the author of his perennially popular adventure novels
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127 of 127 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an omnibus edition of classic page-turning suspense, 4 May 2000
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As its title suggests, this edition brings together in one volume all the adventures of John Buchan's hero, from his first appearance in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) to his swan-song in The Island of Sheep (1936). Here is the perfect book for those who may have met Richard Hannay in his first and most famous outing - either in print or in Hitchcock's famous movie - and would like to follow his subsequent adventures. The Thirty-Nine Steps is often regarded as the first modern spy story (with the possible exception of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands - also worth a look), and its breathless pace as its narrator is first pursued by and then pursues a network of German spies against the backdrop of the First World War, remains as effective today as when it was written. The two following books in the series, Greenmantle (1916)and Mr Standfast (1919) also pit Hannay against the might of the Kaiser (he even meets him on one occasion while posing as a pro-German Boer...), taking him across Europe and the Near East. We are also intoduced to his comrades-in-arms: multi-lingual Scottish laird and master of disguise, Sandy Arbuthnot; larger-than-life American industrialist Blenkiron; and Hannay's future wife, the feisty Mary Lamington. The final two books, The Three Hostages (1924) and the Island of Sheep are set after the War, mainly in Britain, and Hannay's adversaries this time are master criminals rather than spies, but the page-turning suspense is every bit as intense, as Hannay races against the clock to bring the malefactors to book... Hannay is a very likeable hero, more complex than the "stiff upper lip" stereotype might suggest. In many ways, he resembles the central characters of Dick Francis's racing thrillers. Like them, Hannay is no intellectual, but he is highly intelligent and has a healthy disrespect for gung-ho heroics. He is, moreover, a perceptive observer of the natural world, and brings a wry - and infectious - sense of humour to his study of human foibles. All in all, John Buchan's "shockers" (as their author called his Hannay stories) deserve a much wider audience and this Penguin omnibus edition is thus to be applauded.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous!, 4 Dec 2004
I had no idea there were more Buchan novels beyond 39 Steps and only discovered the rest by accident. What a happy find! I am writing a fairly contemporaneous novel and thought this collection would make good research material, but I have to confess I haven't done much key-pounding since I bought it. All the tales are equally deserving of five stars but the descriptions of battle in Mr Standfast are quite outstanding. It's almost like being there, and the end, though terribly melodramatic, is very affecting. Even the endless improbable coincidences seem perfectly acceptable in this sort of writing. Yes, there is racism, homophobia, xenophobia, class snobbery, you name it, but somehow it all seems terribly innocent, even comical, to modern eyes and really doesn't matter. Just don't go calling anyone a 'kaffir' in modern South Africa or they'll lock you up!
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A chap for all seasons, 17 Oct 2005
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These books are a great read; not too deep, great thrillers and set the tone of the period perfectly. All we need now is someone brave enough to make a film of "Greenmantle"!
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5.0 out of 5 stars These Buchan works should be heralded more loudly
Pure adventure, the Buchan style is so easy to read and enjoy, a simplicity that might be innocence, writing mastery or both. Read more
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I first 'met' John Buchan as thirteen-year-old at school via 'Prester John.' I loved his writing and read everything I could get my hands on at the time. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Old, but still excellent.
The fact that these thriller stories never seem to go out of print speaks for itself. The Thirty Nine Steps is constantly popping up on television and always being ruined by the... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not much I can add...
Other reviewers have made lengthy comments on this compilation and I cannot add much to them. This is a fine collection of stories that keep you turning the pages. Read more
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