Greenmantle (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Buchan, John

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9780192836847: Greenmantle (Oxford World's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192836846 ISBN 13: 9780192836847

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

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In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies - the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem. In this classic espionage adventure Buchan shows his mastery of the thriller and the Stevensonian romance, and also his enormous knowledge of world politics before and during the First World War. This edition illuminates for the first time the many levels beneath the stirring plot and romantic characters.

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'Readers who fancy another look at John Buchan's originals, with their matchless suspense and gormless opinions, can find new editions ... in Oxford World's Classics.'Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman & Society

'An exciting First World War thriller.'Observer

Book Description:

'Maybe GREENMANTLE should be a set book for our security services,' wrote Allan Massie in the Economist about John Buchan's finest novel, and one of the finest novels of the 20th Century

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