TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchan,John
AU  - Harvie, Christopher. 
TI  - The thirty-nine steps
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199537877 (pbk.)
U1  - 823.912 BUC 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction.
N2  - In The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the best-known of his thrillers (made into a popular movie by Alfred Hitchcock), John Buchan introduces his most enduring hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow," is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.  In this, the only critical edition available, Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan, publisher and lawyer, came in from the cold and, via The Thirty-Nine Steps, ended the war as spy-master and propaganda chief
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0199537879/
ER  -