Bøger af John Buchan

We know the Buchan formula well, although few may remember it was he who set the mold: take an apparently ordinary man, and let him be drawn into a mystery he only vaguely understands; give him a task to perform, and set obstacles in his path; see that he cannot turn to established authority, see that he cannot be certain who he can trust "¬‚¬" and then, set the clock ticking. . . The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his life. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier, Constantine Karolides, during his forthcoming visit to London. The man reveals his name to be Franklin P. Scudder, a freelance spy, and remarks that he is dead, which holds Hannay's attention. Scudder explains that he has faked his own death to avert suspicion. Scudder claims to be following a ring of German spies called the Black Stone who are trying to steal British plans for the outbreak of war. Hannay lets Scudder hide in his flat, and sure enough the next day another man is discovered having apparently committed suicide in the same building. A couple of days later Hannay returns home to find Scudder dead with a knife through his heart. And that is just the beginning.

Richard Hannay ist vom Leben in London gelangweilt. Doch dann entdeckt er ein schreckliches Verbrechen und findet sich inmitten einer raffinierten und erschreckenden Verschwörung wieder. Kann er den Beweis finden, den er braucht, um sein Land vor einer Katastrophe zu bewahren? Und wird es ihm gelingen, das Geheimnis der neununddreißig Stufen zu lüften, bevor es zu spät ist?

Pierwsza w historii literatury wielka powieść szpiegowska trzyma w napięciu kolejne pokolenie czytelników! Richard Hannay jest brytyjskim szpiegiem, który wspiera amerykańskiego agenta w jego tajnej misji - ma udaremnić polityczne zabójstwo. Kiedy ciało Amerykanina zostaje znalezione w mieszkaniu Hannay, staje się on głównym podejrzanym o zabójstwo. Mężczyzna zostaje wciągnięty w skomplikowaną rozgrywkę między niemieckimi szpiegami a brytyjskim wojskiem. Czy uda mu się ujść z tego cało?Wśród wielu adaptacji książki należy wyróżnić film "The 39 Steps" z 1935 r. w reżyserii Alfreda Hitchcocka. John Buchan (1875-1940) - szkocki polityk, który przez długie lata zajmował się również twórczością literacką. Jako świeżo upieczony absolwent filologii klasycznej wyjechał do Afryki, gdzie został asystentem wpływowego administratora kolonialnego. Po powrocie do Londynu równolegle rozwijał karierę pisarską i polityczną. Podczas I wojny światowej rozpoczął współpracę z Biurem Propagandy Wojennej, awansując z czasem na jednego z głównych propagandzistów zatrudnionych przez brytyjski rząd, działał również w wywiadzie wojskowym jako autor przemówień dla marszałka Haiga. W związku z objęciem stanowiska gubernatora generalnego Kanady otrzymał tytuł barona Tweedsmuir. Zmarł nagle, na skutek udaru mózgu. Pozostawił po sobie ponad 100 utworów, a czego 30 to powieści sensacyjne i przygodowe. W Polsce dotąd ukazała się tylko jedna jego książka - "39 stopni, czyli Tajemnica czarnego kamienia".

I sat and thought for a bit, for the name "Bullivant' carried me back eighteen months to the hot summer before the war. I had not seen the man since, though I had read about him in the papers. For more than a year I had been a busy battalion officer, with no other thought than to hammer a lot of raw stuff into good soldiers. I had succeeded pretty well, and there was no prouder man on earth than Richard Hannay when he took his Lennox Highlanders over the parapets on that glorious and bloody 25th day of September. Loos was no picnic, and we had had some ugly bits of scrapping before that, but the worst bit of the campaign I had seen was a tea-party to the show I had been in with Bullivant before the war started. Major Hannay's narrative of this affair has been published under the title of The Thirty-nine Steps. The sight of his name on a telegram form seemed to change all my outlook on life. I had been hoping for the command of the battalion, and looking forward to being in at the finish with Brother Boche. But this message jerked my thoughts on to a new road. There might be other things in the war than straightforward fighting. Why on earth should the Foreign Office want to see an obscure Major of the New Army, and want to see him in double quick time?

The quintessential man-on-the-run tale starring Richard Hannay as the resourceful engineer, exploiting the complacency of his enemies and using every tool of espionage and charm in the defence of King and country.

After a long stay in South Africa, Richard Hannay arrives back in London just before the outbreak of World War One. There he meets Franklin Scudder, who claims to be investigating the Black Stone – a German spy organization. Hannay gives a shelter to the man but one day he finds him dead. Now the Scotsman fears that he might be the next one on the Black Stone’s list. Hannay decides to go back to his native Scotland with the notebook Scudder gave him before he was murdered. Who is responsible for Scudder's murder? Is it the Black Stone or it is someone else? How will Hannay be involved in this story? What will he find in the mysterious notebook? Can he deal with the German spy organization on his own?Find all the answers in John Buchan’s adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" from 1915.B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish writer, historian, lawyer and government administrator. At the age of seventeen he studied classics and mathematics at Glasgow University. With his second scholarship from Oxford Brasenose College, Buchan graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree. He admired Sir Walter Scott and was inspired by his works. John Buchan’s most famous work is the spy thriller novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", which was written during First World War.

In this story, John Buchan explores Africa together with his friend Lawson. During their expedition, they find an astonishing place and they decide to settle there. But after a while John decides to leave Africa, while Lawson decides to stay. When Buchan returns, after some years, he finds Lawson in terrible condition and not willing to tell him why. However, Lawson’s warden, Mr. Jobson, believes that the problem comes from the grove of trees in their property. What is the reason for Lawson’s poor condition? Will Buchan and Jobson find a way to cure their friend? Will they have to destroy the forest to release him from the spell he is under? Find all the answers in John Buchan’s mysterious novel "The Grove of Ashtaroth".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish writer, historian, lawyer and government administrator. At the age of seventeen he studied classics and mathematics at Glasgow University. With his second scholarship from Oxford Brasenose College, Buchan graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree. He admired Sir Walter Scott and was inspired by his works. John Buchan’s most famous work is the spy thriller novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", which was written during First World War.

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John Buchan's 1932 novel The Gap in the Curtain was his last full-length work devoted to exploring a supernatural theme: if you were able to see one year into the future, what would you do with that foreknowledge? And what would it do to you?

The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen, who features in a number of Buchan's novels. The urban setting contrasts with that of its sequel, John Macnab, which is set in the Scottish Highlands. The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a burly Labour MP.

De 39 stegen är en roman som kom att bli stilbildande för en helt ny genre - äventyrsromanen fylld av spänning och gott humör. Huvudpersonen, Richard Hannay, dras motvilligt in i en kedja av händelser där han hetsas fram över det skottska höglandet jagad av skurkar och poliser. Boken har filmats otaliga gånger, men bäst är nog fortfarande Alfred Hichcocks version från 1935. John Buchan (1875 1940) var en engelsk författare och politiker som skrev en radd historier om sin hjälte Richard Hannay, men den om De 39 stegen är den enda som överlevt och även haft framgång i Sverige...

The hero of the adventure trilogy is an affluent grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. He is formidable and dangerous partly because he seems unremarkable and ordinary, and friends and enemies alike are taken by surprise when he acts boldly. Content: ΓÇó Huntingtower: The story revolves around the imprisonment under false pretenses by Bolshevik agents of an exiled Russian noblewoman. The Scottish local community mobilises to uncover and thwart the conspiracy against her, and to defend the neutrality of Scotland against the Russian revolutionary struggle. A plot based on espionage and covert violence is set against the seemingly tranquil Scottish rural backdrop ΓÇó Castle Gay: The Evallonians from a fictional Central European country visit south west Scotland on a secret mission. The Nail-Biting Suspense story about the mistaken identity, kidnapping plot and threatening Communists, all centering at the castle of a rich newspaper magnate... ΓÇó The House of the Four Winds: The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy... ΓÇó John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

"The Wind in the Portico" - a man decks up his house with remnants of pagan temples and gods but himself starts performing horrific ancient rituals... "The Green Wildebeest" - a man is cursed when he desecrates a sacred African grove... "No-man''s-land" - a man comes face-to-face with a beast in wilderness who hunts cattle and murders people... "The Watcher by the Threshold" - An unmentionable creature piggybacks a man from his near-death experience... "Space" - A brilliant mathematician theorizes the existence of a new dimension but it is not uninhabited, something lurks there... "Tendebaunt Manus" - war affects two brothers, kills one and changes another... "Witch Wood" - ancient Scottish witchcraft practices make a comeback and must be stopped before more lives are endangered. "A Journey of Little Profit" - a shepherd is transformed into a nice person but why and how? "The Outgoing of the Tide" - jealousy and witchcraft never go well for anyone! "The Grove of Ashtaroth" - a home in African wilderness with an ancient temple in its vicinity affects its new occupant... "Basilissa" - a curious nightmare leads to a deadly countdown or is it a warning? "Fullcircle" - a haunted new-house and a doomed family ... "Magic-Walking Stick" - an old man gives Bill an enchanted walking-stick... "Skule Skerry" - an island for migratory birds attracts other unnatural creatures as well... "The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn" - after his disappearance, Hawthorne returns to narrate what happened to him... John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies.

After the War, Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it''s too late... John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada''s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered. "That evening, I remember, as I came up through the Mill Meadow, I was feeling peculiarly happy and contented. It was still mid-March, one of those spring days when noon is like May, and only the cold pearly haze at sunset warns a man that he is not done with winter." (The Three Hostages)