The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps DVD case

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan


The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic political thriller and one of the earliest examples of the “man-on-the-run” plot archetype. Set on the eve of World War I, expatriate Scotsman Richard Hannay has just returned from a stint in Rhodesia and settled in London when he encounters an American freelance spy who tells of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Greek Premier and destabilize Europe. After two murders in his building he is forced to flee to southwest Scotland but is pursued by police, who suspect his involvement. After numerous surprising twists of fate, chases and escapes, we find him with a group of British military in a coastal village in Kent descending the thirty-nine steps down a path in a cliff to apprehend a group of German spies about to abscond with key British secrets. Serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine and published in book form in 1915, the story was a big hit with the soldiers in the trenches and the general public. It has been adapted for radio five times and four times for the cinema and television, most recently in 2008 by the BBC, and appears on the BBC’s Big Read poll of the “best-loved novels” in the UK.

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Product Details

Read by: Adrian Praetzellis
Length: 4 hours and 20 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: DVD case
Item No.: DB-1233
EAN: 0701236969528
List Price: $9.99

Credits

Production

Book Coordinator: Adrian Praetzellis
Meta Coordinator: Karen Savage
Proof Listener: Hans Wink

Artwork
Cover: Steam locomotive used in the past, 2015, by Skarunagama
Inset: Cover for the first edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, October 1915
Inset: Photo of John Buchan, 1936, by Kaiden-Kazanjian Studios Inc.
Insert: Carisbrooke Castle, steps to the keep, c. 1910

The Recordings

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The Recordings

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Table of Contents

Track Section Length
1 01 - The Man who Died 30:08
2 02 - The Milkman Travels 16:26
3 03 - The Literary Innkeeper's Adventure 30:02
4 04 - The Adventure of the Radical Candidate 27:40
5 05 - The Adenture of the Spectacled Roadman 23:05
6 06 - The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 36:39
7 07 - The Dry-Fly Fisherman 26:26
8 08 - The Coming of the Black Stone 19:06
9 09 - The Thirty-Nine Steps 15:35
10 10 - Various Parties Converging on the Sea 34:27

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