![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not clear why, because he says he hates London and he hates sitting still. We don’t learn much about Hannay except that he’s back from South Africa trying to persuade himself to sit still in London for a while. ![]() ![]() With The Thirty-Nine Steps, most of the things that happened were unbelievable. I’m not sure how true that is – it probably depends on the skill of the author and the breadth of the work – but it probably works a lot of the time. It’s often said that in good fiction you can get away with one unbelievable thing (if anyone knows who first said this, get in touch). John Buchan called it a shocker, which he defined as an adventure where the events in the story are unlikely and the reader is only just able to believe that they really happened. The Thirty-Nine Steps follows the narrator, Richard Hannay, as he goes on the run, chased by some mysterious, evil, political group who are apparently afraid that he’s found out their plot and plans to expose them. Let me tell you, the book is barely like the movie at all. Have you seen the movie The Thirty-Nine Steps? Or perhaps one of the many theatre productions? I’ve not been lucky enough to see it at the theatre (yet) but I do remember seeing the Alfred Hitchcock movie a while back. ![]()
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