John Buchan

Broschiertes Buch

The Richard Hannay Collection - Volume I - The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast

Beschreibung

Richard Hannay is the most famous creation of author and diplomat John Buchan. Hannay can be seen to be the first true action hero of British literature, a decorated soldier and spy, constantly needed by the government to thwart plots against the empire. Here collected are the first three novels to contain Richard Hannay.

Autor

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born in Perth, Scotland in 1875, the son of the Reverend John Buchan, a Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife Helen Masterton, the daughter of a sheep farmer. He read classics at the universities of Glasgow and Oxord before embarking on a career spanning the London bar, the Fleet Street press, the northern and southern hemispheres of the British Empire, the Houses of Parliament, and the long wooden shelves of literature. Best known today for his adventure stories, and in particular The Thirty-Nine Steps, which Alfred Hitchcock brought to the cinema in 1935, he was a stakhanovite of English letters, penning dozens of novels and historical works in all. He died in Montreal in 1940.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Press
• Seitenzahl: 1090
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9781473317727
• ISBN-10: 147331772X
• Artikelnr.: 41040172