This book is my introduction to John Buchan & although I have seen every film & TV version of The Thirty-Nine Steps it was watching the film Operation Mincemeat, with a character reading that novel, that made me look for a copy. I enjoy his writing style & Richard Hannay is an engaging character. One review described it as 'old-fashioned', it is not, written in 1915 &, set a year earlier when Europe's simmering tensions were about to explode into war, it was of its time. I have now read three of the five stories in this chunky volume & thoroughly enjoyed every one.
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Fantastic collection! Fast service arrived very quickly. Love British books!
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real adventure stories
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The writIng and the description are a bit old fashioned conpared to todays books, but the stories are well crafted and very interesting
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ight to carry round a whole series but consequently the font is small for those whose eyes are what they were
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Just what I wanted
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very heavy going
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