39 Steps - Red Cat Classics

The 39 Steps - The Red Cat Classics Book Description The 39 Steps, in which Scottish author John Buchan introduces the character of the incorrigible traveler and adventurer Richard Hannay to the reader, is about a breathless international espionage race that takes place days before the First World War. Hannay is the story of the Island. During his arduous journey to the north, he also discovers his own abilities. Buchan's work, which placed the political debates of the period as the background of the masterfully woven detective story, was also adapted to the cinema by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935... “When I returned from the city around three o'clock that May afternoon, I was quite tired of life. I had been in my hometown for three months and I was overwhelmed. If someone had told me a year ago that I would feel this way, I would have laughed, but it was the truth. The weather was getting on my nerves, the conversation of ordinary English people was making me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and London's entertainment life was as unpleasant as soda sitting out in the sun. 'Richard Hannay,' I kept saying to myself, 'you fell into the wrong hole, my friend, you'd better save yourself.'” (From the Promotional Bulletin)