The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan · 1915Richard Hannay on the run across Scotland. Read The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan page by page and explore its network of 367 people, places and things.I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick. I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. “Richard Hannay,” I kept telling myself, “you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you…All books in the ECCE gallery