The Thirty Nine Steps (Express Classics) - Softcover

Buchan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783222689 ISBN 13: 9781783222681

Publisher: ReadZone Books Limited, 2014

Synopsis

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and to prove his innocence. Express Classics is a fast-moving and accessible series that offers a quick way into a range of classic novels. Each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the original book and loses none of the strength and flavour of the original.

About this title

About the Author

John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent, Lloyd George's Director of Information and Conservative MP, Buchan moved to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death in 1940.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadZone Books Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783222689
• ISBN 13: 9781783222681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• Editor: Pauline Francis