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Mr. Standfast
John Buchan
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This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becomes a South African conscientious objector, using the name Cornelius Brand. Under the orders of his spymaster, Sir Walter Bullivant, he travels in the book through England to Scotland, back to the Western Front, and ultimately, for the book's denouement, into the Alps.
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becomes a South African conscientious objector, using the name Cornelius Brand. Under the orders of his spymaster, Sir Walter Bullivant, he travels in the book through England to Scotland, back to the Western Front, and ultimately, for the book's denouement, into the Alps.
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Indeed it wasn't, for the confounded tub wallowed like a fat sow as soon as we rounded a headland and got the weight of the south-western wind. When asked my purpose, I explained that I was a colonial of Scots extraction, who was paying his first visit to his fatherland and wanted to explore the beauties of the West Highlands. I let him gather that I was not rich in this world's goods.
'Ye'll have a passport?' he asked. 'They'll no let ye go north o' Fort William without one.'
Amos had said nothing about passports, so I looked blank.
'I could keep ye on board for the whole voyage,' he went on, 'but ye wouldna be permitted to land. If ye're seekin' enjoyment, it would be a poor job sittin' on this deck and admirin'. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Buchan is a bit of an acquired taste. The book is a bit slow at times, and the values that form its backbone are often foreign. But that is part of his charm.
I love old books that were once popular. They are the window into the soul of an age.
In this one, we have a wonderful view of the tensions be
This novel concludes what I think of as the original Hannay trilogy, which sees our hero through the course of the first world war, or the Great War as they used to call it.
There's an interesting change in tone over these three books. 'The Thirty Nine Steps' is stark and intense with Hannay a man p
This book managed to have all the elements I enjoyed in the first two - the solo agent on the run, the puzzling out of spy plans and mysteries, the relationships between team members in service of the country and cause they love so much. Also, this time around, romance with a smart woman who makes t
Mr Standfast, published in 1919, was the third of John Buchan’s Richard Hannay espionage novels.
The success of The Thirty-Nine Steps had taken Buchan by surprise. Buchan was himself an interesting character who wrote some great weird fiction as well as works of serious history. He was created Baron
John Buchan wrote thrillers in the early decades of the twentieth century; his best-known book is probably The Thirty-Nine Steps, which spawned several film versions, including an early Hitchcock effort. This is the third of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, a stalwart soldier/adventurer embodyi