Questions tagged [the-thirty-nine-steps]
"The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), an adventure novel by John Buchan. Use with the [john-buchan] tag.
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What does "a stroke a hole" refer to in "The Thirty-Nine Steps"?
I have a question about a passage in The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. In Chapter 10, "Various Parties Converging on the Sea", Richard Hannay watches two people playing tennis, after ...
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What do "Free Trader" and "Protection in the Colonies" refer to in "The Thirty-Nine Steps"?
I have a question about a passage in The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. In Chapter 4, "The adventure of the radical candidate", Richard Hannay meets Sir Harry, who says:
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Was the assassination plot in The Thirty-Nine Steps based on any real plot?
In John Buchan's famous short novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, much of the plot (ha) revolves around a German plot to assassinate the Greek Premier, which is thwarted by the story's hero. All this happens ...
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