The Thirtynine Steps

By Buchan, John

Book Id: WPLBN0000627946
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Thirtynine Steps
Author:	Buchan, John
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Buchan, B. J. (n.d.). The Thirtynine Steps. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON (LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE). My Dear Tommy, You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the ?dime novel? and which we know as the ?shocker'?the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Thirty?Nine Steps, 1 -- John Buchan, 1