![]() ![]() I gave half-a-crown to a beggar because I saw him yawn he was a fellow-sufferer. These shop-girls and clerks and dandies and policemen had some interest in life that kept them going. The crowd surged past me on the pavements, busy and chattering, and I envied the people for having something to do. ![]() As the story begins, Hannay has been in England for three months and is feeling bored, homesick and disillusioned: The novel is narrated in the first person by Richard Hannay, who has recently arrived in London having spent most of his life living in Africa. Published in 1915, The Thirty-Nine Steps is set during the May and June of the previous year, just before the outbreak of war in Europe. I wasn’t at all sure that it would be my sort of book, which is why I’ve put off reading it for so long, but I knew there must be a reason why it is so well-loved and has been adapted for film and television so many times. Never having read anything by John Buchan before, the logical place to start seemed to be with his most famous novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps. ![]()
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