Libros de John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps

• 258 páginas
• This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875-1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935). Curiously, although all keep the theme of German espionag...

Castle Gay

• "Castle Gay" is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s (and includes much Scots vocabulary).

Collected Supernatural Stories

• Eleven of John Buchan’s best short stories, primarily about places - the haunted homes and wilds of the United Kingdom and the dangerous wilderness of Southern Africa -- and some rooted in ancient Celtic and Roman civilization.

John Macnab

The Gap In The Curtain

• This book contains the classic supernatural novel ’The Gap In the Curtain’, by the well-known John Buchan. The story is set in a country house, where guests are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of thei...

Prester John

• 292 páginas
• Prester John is an exceptionally entertaining example of an early 20th century adventure story. Its hero is a young Scotsman who travels to South Africa to make his fortune. Expecting to settle down to a quiet life as a storekeeper, he instead finds himse...

The House Of The Four Winds

• "The House of the Four Winds" is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scottish novelist John Buchan. It is set in the fictional European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s, and explores the influence of some Scottish visitors in the toppling of...

The Island Of Sheep

• 242 páginas
• A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from the...

Huntingtower

• 272 páginas
• This modern fairy-tale is also the gripping adventure story about Dickson McCunn, a respectable,..

Greenmantle

• New edition.

The Blanket Of The Dark

• 304 páginas
• An anonymous young man's life is about to be changed, as could the course of history. It is 1536 and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade...

The Watcher By The Threshold (1918)

• This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Thirty-nine Steps

• 96 páginas
• 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running...

The Half-hearted (1900)

• This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

John Macnab

• 240 páginas
• In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab; three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will...

Mr. Standfast

• I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my...

The Thirty-nine Steps

• 128 páginas
• Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators.

The Thirty-nine Steps

• 144 páginas
• Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock,  The Thirty-Nine Steps  is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature

The Thirty-nine Steps

• 148 páginas
• The classic adventure story featuring the intrepid Richard Hannay, this is a new edition in the "Red Classics" series. Hannay is on the run from the police and a murderer, and returns to his native Scotland. There, he must stay one step ahead...

Supernatural Buchan - Stories Of Ancient Spirits Uncanny Places And Strange Creatures

• Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures. Buchan's stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefore...