Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography,Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. [Novels] Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: 1.The Thirty-Nine Ste...

Classic British Works: 10 Books by John Buchan includes The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction, Greenmantle, The Half-Hearted, Huntingtower, The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies, Mr Standfast, The Path Of The King, Prester John, Salute To Adventurers, and The Thirty-Nine Steps. According to Wikipedia, "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan's 100 works in...

John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John MacNab.Three high-flying men—a barrister, a cabinet minister, and a banker—are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time. They sign collectively as "John McNab" and await the responses.This novel is a light interlude within the Leithen Stories series—an evocative look at the hunting, shooting...

Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country—a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister—have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through ‘the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of ‘John Macnab', they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland, issuing challenges to three landowners and declaring their intention to take a salmon or a stag on their lands between specific dates. But can they overc...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of John Buchan’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Buchan...

John Macnab was written in the year 1925 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

John Macnab is a novel by John Buchan, published in 1925.Plot summaryThree successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Tory Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, banker and sportsman; and Charles, Earl of Lamancha, former adventurer and present Tory Cabinet Minister. Under the collective name of 'John Macnab', they set up in the Highland home of Sir Archie Roylance, a disabled ...

In "Prester John," John Buchan crafts a thrilling adventure that marries historical fiction with the allure of myth, exploring themes of exploration, faith, and the enigmatic figure of Prester John'Äîa legendary Christian king believed to have ruled a vast kingdom in the East. Buchan'Äôs literary style reflects a sophisticated use of narrative tension and vivid imagery, drawing the reader into a richly woven tale filled with exotic landscapes and perilous encounters. Set against the backdr...

Fini, l'oisiveté ! Avec le meurtre de Scudder, Richard Hannay se trouve, du jour au lendemain, mêlé à une extraordinaire aventure.Au centre de l'histoire : une organisation secrète, mais terriblement puissante, un complot international et... un mot de code incompréhensible.Pour rassembler les morceaux de ce puzzle déconcertant, Richard Hannay n'a que vingt jours devant lui...Vingt jours pendant lesquels on va voir ce flegmatique Britannique fuir à travers toute l’Éc...

Frère d'armes de Richard Hannay — le héros des "Trente-neuf marches" — le jeune avocat anglais Edward Leithen se trouve confronté ici à une puissante et mystérieuse confrérie criminelle nommée "la Centrale d'énergie". Au fil de rebondissements dignes d'un film d'Alfred Hitchcock, Leithen parviendra à confondre le cerveau de l'organisation et à déjouer le complot qui menace le monde civilisé. Comme "Les Trente-neuf marches", "La Centrale d'énergie" est un roman no...

John Buchan's 'shocker' adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century and now, for the first time in publishing history, readers can explore the author's complete fictional works in a single collection. This comprehensive eBook presents numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Buchan's life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and ot...