![]() One night, a man calls on Hannay at his flat and asks to speak to him. Just returned from Rhodesia, he tries to adapt to life in London. Still, Buchan's novel remains one of the great British adventure novels and is still considered by the roman noir experts as one of the greatest spy novels ever. However “The Thirty-Nine steps” without doubt owes its long enduring popularity to the first cinematographic adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. “The Thirty-nine steps” was a major success when it was first published, creating a hero, Richard Hannay, who will appear in seven novels in total, and it is without doubt the most famous work by John Buchan. Although the novel is published a year into World War One, the action predates the outbreak of the war by a few weeks. ![]() “The Thirty-nine steps” is a spy novel written by John Buchan and published by William Blackwood and sons in 1915, after first appearing as a serial in Blackwood's. ![]()
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