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The Thirty-nine Steps

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Adrian Praetzellis

4 Hours 21 Minutes

LibriVox

January 2015

Audio Book Summary

Richard Hannay's boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 classic film of the same name. John Buchan (1875-1940) was Governor General of Canada and a popular novelist. Although condemned by some for anti-Semitic dialog in The Thirty-Nine Steps, his character's sentiments do not represent the view of the author who was identified in Hitler's Sonderfahndungsliste (special search list) as a "Jewish sympathiser." (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

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  • Anonymous

    I loved it

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  • Anonymous

    Great audiobook, really enjoyed it and it was my first one too. Certainly won’t be my last. Listened to it whilst running and loved it.

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  • Smileykat

    Good book. Enjoyable. Older style of writing, which is expected for when it was written.

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  • Anonymous

    An all time classic.

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  • Penny E.

    I liked the book. As a South African, I found the references to Southern Africa entertaining as it provides a mindset of the colonial British person of that time.

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  • Victor P.

    Probably one of the most enjoyable narrations that I have ever listened to. I had read the book more than 50 years ago, so had forgotten the charcters and the plot. As I am famililiar with many of the various dialects spoken in the U.K., I was impressed with the narrator's ability to switch in to the vernacular of the characters, especially of those in rural Scotland.

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  • Anonymous

    Hard to follow.

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  • Anonymous

    Fascinating book as it relates to the time and era of pre-WW2. I especially enjoyed the use of the dialect and idioms from an era long past

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  • Jackie M.

    good story. good narration.

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  • Rebecca C.

    was really good story. was intrugued throughout. bit of suspense and adventure. narrator was OK but a little droning although still enjoyed this book.

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