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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Stories from the Dream Series de John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps: Stories from the Dream Series

Autor John Buchan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2015

Cât de repede poți fugi când ești singurul care cunoaște un secret ce poate distruge o națiune? Suntem martorii unui coșmar logistic și moral. Richard Hannay se trezește peste noapte dintr-un aventurier plictisit într-un fugar vânat de poliție și de asasini nemiloși. Totul începe cu un cadavru în propriul apartament. O conspirație germană amenință flota britanică. Timpul se scurge. Putem afirma că The Thirty-Nine Steps a definit regulile genului de spionaj modern. Observăm o structură narativă de o eficiență brutală. Capitolele sunt scurte. Tensiunea este constantă. Hannay trebuie să descifreze firele încurcate ale unui complot politic în timp ce traversează Scoția pe jos. Pe același raft cu Mr Standfast de John Buchan, această carte se distinge prin simplitatea sa arhetipală și ritmul alert al urmăririi. Nu există loc pentru erori. Fiecare pas contează. Această ediție din Alma Classics Evergreens ne oferă nu doar textul original din 1915, ci și contextul istoric necesar. Este prima aventură dintr-o serie de cinci. Este scânteia care a inspirat viziunea lui Alfred Hitchcock. Simțim urgența fiecărei decizii luate sub presiune. Este o cursă contracronometru unde miza este supraviețuirea unui imperiu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781517701260
ISBN-10: 1517701260
Pagini: 114
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Recomandăm acest volum celor care vor să descopere originile thrillerului de spionaj. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra arhetipului „omului pe fugă”, într-o lectură rapidă de doar 128 de pagini. Este alegerea ideală pentru cititorii care apreciază proza clasică engleză, dar caută o intensitate narativă comparabilă cu producțiile cinematografice moderne. Un motiv concret? Este piesa fundamentală care a influențat întreaga literatură de suspans a secolului XX.

Descriere scurtă

Richard Hannay's boredom with London society is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer from South Africa is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. When a neighbor is killed in his flat, Richard, suspected, decodes the journal, runs to the wilds of his native Scotland in disguises and local dialects, evades Germans and officials.

Notă biografică

John Buchan was born in Perth in 1875, the son of a Church of Scotland Minister. After being educated locally, he attended Glasgow University and Brasenose College Oxford. He exchanged comparative poverty for affluence by his success as an author, but it was as a lawyer that his reputation began. He went to South Africa to serve as private secretary to the British Colonial administrator, Alfred, Lord Milner and assisted in reconstruction of the country after the Boer War. He entered publishing in 1906 as partner in the firm of his friend Thomas Nelson and married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, in 1907. They had four children. Buchan was elected to Parliament in 1911, served in various capacities during the First World War, including writing speeches for Sir Douglas Haig and taking on the role of Director of Information under Lord Beaverbrook. He returned to the House of Commons in 1927 and then in 1935 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada and became Lord Tweedsmuir. He died in 1940. John Buchan was a prolific author and wrote poetry and biographies as well as novels, but he is still best remembered for his adventure stories and in particular the five Hannay novels: The Thirty Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, and The Island of Sheep.

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John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps.The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication and has been filmed three times, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. In this, the only critical edition, Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan, publisher and lawyer, came in from the cold and, via The Thirty-Nine Steps, ended the war as spy-master and propaganda chief. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Cuprins

1. The man who died; 2. The milkman sets out on his travels; 3. The adventure of the literary innkeeper; 4. The adventure of the Radical candidate; 5. The adventure of the spectacled roadman; 6. The adventure of the bald archaeologist; 7. The dry-fly fisherman; 8. The coming of the Black Stone; 9. The thirty-nine steps; 10. Various parties converging on the sea.

Recenzii

"Richard Hannay is, like his American brother Philip Marlowe, a modern knight errant. Charging through a hypocritical world, he is a seeker after truth with a boundless love of nature, a liking for simple pleasures and a hatred of pettiness and snobberies... Buchan's novels are eerily resonant with today's troubles...Hannay is a hero of all times."
--Observer

"Buchan makes superb use of wild landscapes in this economical and gripping story."
--The Times