L'un des 100 meilleurs thrillers de tous les temps selon The Guardian, Les 39 Marches a été adapté au cinéma par Alfred Hitchcock avant de devenir une mini-série Netflix avec Benedict Cumberbatch dans le rôle principal.
Bientôt en mini-série sur Netflix, le classique du suspense qu'Alfred Hitchcock rendit célèbreRichard Hannay, ancien ingénieur des mines, vient de rentrer à Londres après plusieurs années passées en Afrique du Sud.
Très vite, la capitale britannique l'ennuie au plus haut point. Il rencontre alors un Américain qui lui parle d'un complot qui pourrait avoir de terribles répercussions sur l'Europe entière.
Hannay accepte de le cacher dans son appartement. Mais, en rentrant chez lui, un soir, il découvre son cadavre.
Suspect pour la police, proie pour les assassins, Hannay prend la fuite. Il lui faut dès lors éclaircir cette ténébreuse affaire, et comprendre où mènent les 39 marches...
Adapté en 1935 par Alfred Hitchock,
Les 39 Marches est considéré comme le précurseur du roman d'espionnage et fait, selon l'association des Mystery Writers of America fondée en 1945, partie des 25 meilleurs suspenses de tous les temps.
1745. Agent de Charles Stuart qui entreprend la reconquête du trône anglais, le jeune Alastair Maclean croise les destinées de Midwinter, curieux seigneur des marges anglaises ; de la belle Claudia Norreys et de son traître et veule époux ; de Nicholas Kyd, bon vivant ambigu ; et de l'absurde et sagace Samuel Johnson, qui deviendra son fidèle ami. Dans une sauvage Angleterre magnifiée par l'hiver, Alastair achèvera, dans la douleur, une éducation sentimentale et guerrière des plus mélancoliques. Ce roman historique haut en couleurs et en rebondissements, inédit en France, rappelle le génie narratif de ce grand auteur britannique qu'est John Buchan. Il est mené tambour battant, à bride abattue et enthousiasmera ceux qui aiment que l'Histoire soit magnifiée par une belle écriture.
John Buchan (1875-1940) Écossais, homme d'état, Gouverneur général du Canada, fut d'abord responsable de l'Intelligence Service puis Ministre de l'information. Avant tout c'est un écrivain prolifique et célébré de romans d'aventures, historiques, fantastiques et d'espionnage et éditeur chez Nelson. On lui doit des livres majeurs régulièrement redécouverts qui ont enchanté la jeunesse de plusieurs générations : Salut aux coureurs d'aventures, Les 39 marches, La Centrale d'énergie, Le manteau vert
Premier roman mettant en scène Richard Hannay, sud-africain, ingénieur des mines et prospecteur. Hannay se retrouve mêlé à une aventure incroyable qui conduira à l'attenta de Sarajevo en juin 1914. Tout commence par la découverte d'un cadavre au milieu de son salon. Il s'avère qu'une organisation internationale ultra-puissante fomente un complot terrible visant à mettre l'Europe à feu et à sang. Hannay se retrouve seul face à des adversaires redoutables, envoyés par la « Pierre-Noire ». Il a vingt jours pour déjouer les stratagèmes de la Pierre-Noire et rester en vie, vingt jours seulement pour comprendre ce que signifie « Les Trente-Neuf marches » et sauver l'Europe de la guerre.Traduit de l'anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Théo Varlet Traduction révisée
John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine steps" is a 1915 spy novel set in London and Scotland, during the few weeks preceding the outbreak of World War One. Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 cinematographic adaptation, "The Thirty-Nine steps" is Buchan's most famous work. Originally an attempt at creating a "dime-novel" or a "shocker", the novel is often considered as one of the greatest adventure or spy novels of all times, and it probably invents the genre. Rediscover "The Thirty-Nine steps" with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.
John Buchan's "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart German plans to wreak havoc in the Near East and Middle East through religious uprising. Hannay will gather his friends, and together they will travel to the Bosphorus, and fight bigger than life characters along the way. Discover Greenmantle with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.
After a long stay in South Africa, Richard Hannay arrives back in London just before the outbreak of World War One. There he meets Franklin Scudder, who claims to be investigating the Black Stone - a German spy organization. Hannay gives a shelter to the man but one day he finds him dead. Now the Scotsman fears that he might be the next one on the Black Stone's list. Hannay decides to go back to his native Scotland with the notebook Scudder gave him before he was murdered.
Who is responsible for Scudder's murder? Is it the Black Stone or it is someone else? How will Hannay be involved in this story? What will he find in the mysterious notebook? Can he deal with the German spy organization on his own?
Find all the answers in John Buchan's adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" from 1915.
B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish writer, historian, lawyer and government administrator. At the age of seventeen he studied classics and mathematics at Glasgow University. With his second scholarship from Oxford Brasenose College, Buchan graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree. He admired Sir Walter Scott and was inspired by his works. John Buchan's most famous work is the spy thriller novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", which was written during First World War.
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Published in 1919, Mr. Standfast is a thriller set in the latter half of the First World War, and the third of John Buchan's books to feature Richard Hannay.
Richard Hannay is called back from serving in France to take part in a secret mission: searching for a German agent. Hannay disguises himself as a pacifist and travels through England and Scotland to track down the spy at the center of a web of German agents who are leaking information about the war plans. He hopes to infiltrate and feed misinformation back to Germany. His journey takes him from Glasgow to Skye, onwards into the Swiss Alps, and on to the Western Front.
During the course of his work he's again reunited with Peter Pienaar and John Blenkiron, who both appear in Greenmantle, as well as Sir Walter Bullivant, his Foreign Office contact from The Thirty Nine Steps.
The title of the novel comes from a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to which there are many references in the book, not least of all as a codebook which Hannay uses to decipher messages from his allies.
The book finishes with a captivating description of some of the final battles of the First World War between Britain and Germany in Eastern France.
"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The Power-House. "The power-house" was first serialised in Blackwood's magazine and then was released as a book in 1916. Preceding the famous The Thirty-Nine steps, little known, The Power-House is a fascinating spy novel. Filled with considerations about civilization and chaos, Nietzschean references, predictions about the future, Buchan's "The Power-House" is political philosophy wrapped into a thriller inside conspiracy theory. A must-read, if only for the first encounter between the hero & narrator and the head of the Power-House. Discover The Power-House with an original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.
Pierwsza w historii literatury wielka powie´s´c szpiegowska trzyma w napieciu kolejne pokolenie czytelników! Richard Hannay jest brytyjskim szpiegiem, który wspiera ameryka´nskiego agenta w jego tajnej misji - ma udaremni´c polityczne zabójstwo. Kiedy cialo Amerykanina zostaje znalezione w mieszkaniu Hannay, staje sie on glównym podejrzanym o zabójstwo. Mezczyzna zostaje wciagniety w skomplikowana rozgrywke miedzy niemieckimi szpiegami a brytyjskim wojskiem. Czy uda mu sie uj´s´c z tego calo?
W´sród wielu adaptacji ksiazki nalezy wyrózni´c film "The 39 Steps" z 1935 r. w rezyserii Alfreda Hitchcocka.
John Buchan (1875-1940) - szkocki polityk, który przez dlugie lata zajmowal sie równiez twórczo´scia literacka. Jako ´swiezo upieczony absolwent filologii klasycznej wyjechal do Afryki, gdzie zostal asystentem wplywowego administratora kolonialnego. Po powrocie do Londynu równolegle rozwijal kariere pisarska i polityczna. Podczas I wojny ´swiatowej rozpoczal wspólprace z Biurem Propagandy Wojennej, awansujac z czasem na jednego z glównych propagandzistów zatrudnionych przez brytyjski rzad, dzialal równiez w wywiadzie wojskowym jako autor przemówie´n dla marszalka Haiga. W zwiazku z objeciem stanowiska gubernatora generalnego Kanady otrzymal tytul barona Tweedsmuir. Zmarl nagle, na skutek udaru mózgu. Pozostawil po sobie ponad 100 utworów, a czego 30 to powie´sci sensacyjne i przygodowe. W Polsce dotad ukazala sie tylko jedna jego ksiazka - "39 stopni, czyli Tajemnica czarnego kamienia".
In this story, John Buchan explores Africa together with his friend Lawson. During their expedition, they find an astonishing place and they decide to settle there. But after a while John decides to leave Africa, while Lawson decides to stay. When Buchan returns, after some years, he finds Lawson in terrible condition and not willing to tell him why. However, Lawson's warden, Mr. Jobson, believes that the problem comes from the grove of trees in their property.
What is the reason for Lawson's poor condition? Will Buchan and Jobson find a way to cure their friend? Will they have to destroy the forest to release him from the spell he is under?
Find all the answers in John Buchan's mysterious novel "The Grove of Ashtaroth".
B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish writer, historian, lawyer and government administrator. At the age of seventeen he studied classics and mathematics at Glasgow University. With his second scholarship from Oxford Brasenose College, Buchan graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree. He admired Sir Walter Scott and was inspired by his works. John Buchan's most famous work is the spy thriller novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", which was written during First World War.
Double agents, espionage and romance, this historical story transports you back to the Jacobite rising in 1745 and in the midst of an attempt by Scottish highlanders to place Bonnie Prince Charlie on the English throne.
The plot follows Alastair Maclean, who has been exiled to France, and returns to join the Jacobite army as it moves towards London. Along the way he uncovers double agents, working for both the Jacobites and the British, and falls in love with an enemy's wife.
With masses of old-world descriptions and scene-setting, you will walk the roads with the Scottish rebels as they conjure up support and surge forward to London.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a British novelist and historian. He was also known as a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.
After a brief legal career, he started his writing, political and diplomatic careers at the same time; first serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', which was later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock and other adventure fiction.
Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de John Buchan. Frère d'armes de Richard Hannay - le héros des "Trente-neuf marches" - le jeune avocat anglais Edward Leithen se trouve confronté ici à une puissante et mystérieuse confrérie criminelle nommée "la Centrale d'énergie". Au fil de rebondissements dignes d'un film d'Alfred Hitchcock, Leithen parviendra à confondre le cerveau de l'organisation et à déjouer le complot qui menace le monde civilisé. Comme "Les Trente-neuf marches", "La Centrale d'énergie" est un roman noir captivant, prophétique et profondément original. L'auteur, John Buchan, précurseur du roman d'espionnage contemporain, a suivi parallèlement deux carrières, l'une de politicien influent (Baron Tweedsmuir d'Elsfield, membre de l'organisation semi-secrète de La Table Ronde, il fut l'éminence grise de plusieurs Premiers ministres anglais, principal artisan de la construction du Commonwealth et gouverneur général du Canada), l'autre d'écrivain, auteur d'une bonne trentaine d'oeuvres dans différents genres (biographies historiques, essais politiques, romans d'aventures et d'espionnage).
"Mr Standfast" is a spy novel featuring Richard Hannay, written by John Buchan and published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton. Richard Hannay is recalled from the Western Front by his good friend Bullivant in order to be assigned a new mission. As always, the whole action revolves around identifying a master German spy who operates in Britain along with his agents. In order to find him out, he must adopt a disguise he truly dislikes, the one of a pacifist. He then travels to the Cotswolds as Cornelius Brand, a South African war objector, in order to penetrate a group of war-hating intellectuals. He falls in love with a young woman called Mary who is also part of the group. John Buchan is the inventor of the modern British spy novel.
John Buchan dit Lord Tweedsmuir (Perth, Écosse, 26 août 1875 - Montréal, Québec, 11 février 1940), 1er baron Tweedsmuir d'Elsfield, fils d'un pasteur calviniste, fut le quinzième gouverneur général du Canada, de 1935 à 1940. Également éditeur et écrivain, il est l'auteur de romans comme Les 39 Marches. Extrait : La guerre est une belle partie, et vous êtes homme à la jouer. Mais d'autres que vous en savent les règles, car aujourd'hui, la guerre réclame plutôt des qualités moyennes qu'exceptionnelles. C'est comme une grande machine dont tous les rouages sont réglés. Vous ne vous battez pas parce que vous n'avez rien de mieux à faire, vous vous battez parce que vous désirez servir l'Angleterre. Mais que diriez-vous s'il vous était possible de l'aider plus efficacement qu'en commandant un bataillon, une brigade ou une division ? Que diriez-vous s'il existait une oeuvre que vous seul puissiez accomplir ? Je ne parle pas d'une corvée d'embusqué dans un bureau, mais d'une tâche à côté de laquelle votre expérience de Loos ne serait qu'une plaisanterie. Vous ne craignez pas le danger ? Eh bien, dans l'affaire que je vous propose, vous ne vous battriez pas entouré d'une armée : vous vous battriez seul. Vous aimez jouer les difficultés ? Eh bien, je puis vous confier une mission qui mettra toutes vos facultés à l'épreuve. Avez-vous quelque chose à dire ?
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