
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first。
published in 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels。
featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous habit of getting himself out of sticky situations.The novel formed the basis for a number of film。
adaptations, notably: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 colour remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British。
own safety. The story was a great success with the men in the First World War trenches. One soldier wrote to Buchan, "The story is greatly appreciated in the midst of mud and rain。
and shells, and all that could make trench life depressing."Richard Hannay continued his adventures in four subsequent books. Two were set during the war when Hannay。
continued his undercover work against the Germans and their allies the Turks in Greenmantle and Mr Standfast. The other two stories, The Three Hostages and The Island of Sheep were set in the post war period when Hannay's opponents were criminal。
eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort following the outbreak of the First World War. Once back in civilian life, Buchan was elected the Member of Parliament for the。
Combined Scottish Universities, but spent most of his time on his writing career. He wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.On the recommendation of Canadian。
Prime Minister Richard Bennett, Buchan was appointed by George V, the king of Canada, as the Canadian viceroy, succeeding in that role the Earl of Bessborough. Buchan proved to。
be enthusiastic about literacy as well as the evolution of Canadian culture. He died in 1940, suffering the consequences of a stroke at Rideau Hall. He received a state funeral in Canada, and his ashes were returned to the UK and interred at Elsfield, Oxfordshire。
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《三十九级台阶》是英国作家约翰·巴肯的重要作品之一。在这部小说中,从南部非洲返回英国的采矿工程师理查德·汉内为阻止国防绝密文件落入德国人之手,与德国间谍展开了一场惊心动魄的搏斗。
小说的文笔通俗细腻,故事情节跌宕起伏,悬念丛生,惊险瞬间目不暇接,不愧为一部脍炙人口的惊险小说。
这个是对书的背景介绍吧,有没有简短的梗概呐?
呃,我也没看过,这还是我在网上找的。没能帮到你