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Mr. Standfast
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Reluctantly posing as a pacifist, Richard Hannay infiltrates an anti-war league to capture an unimpeachable German spy. The only instructions he's given are to take up his old identity as a mining engineer from South Africa and pose as a staunch pacifist. As Hannay himself puts it: "To go into Germany as an anti-British Afrikaner was a stoutish adventure, but to lounge about at home talking rot was a very different-sized job."
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For the Buchan die-hard
- By James on 17-08-08
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Mr. Standfast
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 06-11-06
- Language: English
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Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with. For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell. However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback.
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Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Scottish
- By: J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. Whether they hail from the Lowlands or the Highlands, to be a Scottish author is to part of a quite an extraordinary band of authors and its literary traditions. These beguiling stories example the full range and majesty of their talents and the subjects they explore.
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Scottish
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-08-24
- Language: English
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The 39 Steps
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life. But a shady man named Franklin Scudder calls on him for help. Scudder is a freelance spy who has just uncovered a German plot to murder the Greek Premier, thus forcing Europe into war. He is the only man living to have penetrated into the ring of German spies who call themselves the Black Stone. Scudder tells Hannay all he knows. The next day, Scudder is murdered in Hannay's apartment.
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Great story
- By Anne-Maria Moynihan on 19-01-21
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The 39 Steps
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 14-11-12
- Language: English
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Greenmantle
- The Richard Hannay Series, Book 2
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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In Greenmantle, Richard Hannay, hero of The 39 Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies.
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Absolutely gripping story and characters
- By Emma on 21-06-24
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Greenmantle
- The Richard Hannay Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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The Thirty Nine Steps
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal chase thriller, rapid and vivid. It has been widely influential and frequently dramatised: the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a screen classic.
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The Thirty Nine Steps
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-07-11
- Language: English
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Classic John Buchan Stories
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Iain Cuthbertson
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Here are tales about war-time code breaking, cannibalism, and swashbuckling adventure during the times of Bonnie Prince Charlie. They vie with subtler stories, with a more intimate perspective, about the vagaries of human nature, politics, fishing, and poaching, set against the landscape of the lowland Scottish countryside where the author spent his youth.
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Diverse collection – not just adventure
- By LMC on 05-07-21
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Classic John Buchan Stories
- Narrated by: Iain Cuthbertson
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-11-06
- Language: English
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Witch Wood
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.
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History & Faith
- By christopher M on 24-04-24
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Witch Wood
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Mr. Standfast
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Listed in the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, Mr. Standfast is the third of Buchan's thrilling, fast-paced World War I adventure novels, following The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Greenmantle, in which Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is reluctantly plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England.
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Mr. Standfast
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-11-20
- Language: English
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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
- By: Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Charles Dickens, and others
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Martin Jarvis, Jonathan Firth, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories about intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and old, male or female. A carefully compiled anthology featuring timeless tales from classic authors including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anton Chekhov, read by a cast of acclaimed and respected actors, including Stephen Fry, Martin Jarvis and Kerry Shale; this compilation will be enjoyed by the whole family.
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Edgar Wallace book was the best
- By T. Piper on 02-04-18
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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Martin Jarvis, Jonathan Firth, Iain Cuthbertson, Kerry Shale, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Fry
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-08-10
- Language: English
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The Great British Short Story Collection
- By: Barry Pain, E. F. Benson, Stacy Aumonier, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 32 hrs and 13 mins
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A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers. 1."The Missing Years" by Barry Pain, 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs, 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens, 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain, 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier, 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey, 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey, 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
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Poorly Narrated
- By Claris, Grays, Essex on 25-10-15
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The Great British Short Story Collection
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 32 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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Salute to Adventurers
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Canongate Scottish Collection
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Salute to Adventurers takes place in the 1680s. It begins as the hero, Andrew Garvald, on his way to Glasgow, takes a cut across the moors. There he meets Elspeth Blair and a religious fanatic known as Muckle John Gib. Later Andrew encounters Ninian Campbell, coming to Campbell's aid when he is attacked by ruffians in a Glasgow back street. Andrew is sent by his uncle - as his merchant representative - to Virginia, where he initially experiences hostility because of his attempts to reform trading practices.
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Great book
- By d on 24-05-14
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Salute to Adventurers
- Narrated by: Canongate Scottish Collection
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-07-12
- Language: English
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (Adaptation)
- Oxford Bookworms Library
- By: John Buchan, Jennifer Bassett - adaptation
- Narrated by: Mark Strayker
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.’ Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious ’Black Stone’. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (Adaptation)
- Oxford Bookworms Library
- Narrated by: Mark Strayker
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-12-10
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of John Buchan
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such acclaimed works as a 24 volume history of World War I. It was during the war, where, as a sideline writing propaganda, he wrote his most famous work, ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. Its hero, Richard Hannay, continues his story in other Buchan novels, most notably Greenmantle (1916) and Mr Standfast (1919).
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The Short Stories of John Buchan
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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The 39 Steps
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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The 39 Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.
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The 39 Steps
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-07-20
- Language: English
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
- By: John Buchan
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Embark on a thrilling adventure with John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps." Follow Richard Hannay as he uncovers a conspiracy and races against time to prevent a global disaster. Perfect for fans of espionage, mystery, and action-packed narratives.
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The Mystery and Thriller Collection
- The Secret Agent, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Lost Hearts, & The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- By: Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, M.R. James
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks Cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Many hybrid forms of the mystery-crime-thriller genre exists. All of them are narratives that keep one in suspense about what is about to happen. The thriller also shares a literary lineage with ancient epic and myth populated by monsters, terror and danger. Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Ludlum are some of the masters of the genre.
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The Mystery and Thriller Collection
- The Secret Agent, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Lost Hearts, & The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks Cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Greenmantle
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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A year after the adventure of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Major Richard Hannay is plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, and sent on a perilous journey through the very heart of the German empire, to Constantinople. There, he and his small band of missionaries must frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world aimed at dealing a crushing blow to Britain's interests in the East, and winning the war for Germany.
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Greenmantle
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-05-20
- Language: English
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of The Thirty-Nine Steps. In May 1914 Richard Hannay finds himself caught up in an international intrigue that has the sole objective of starting a world wide war. Hannay's enemies have committed murder and set Hannay up to take the fall. Now he's on the run from the secretive Black Stone and the police, yet he's the only one who can save England!
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Good story, pity about the narrator.
- By Joan L James on 18-02-19
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-08-14
- Language: English
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Richard Hannay, Buchan's hero in this 1915 thriller, stumbles across a dark plot to attack England by the German Reich (of World War I vintage) but has to flee when his discovery becomes known. He then engages in several hot pursuits and narrow, if theatrical, escapes, but all's well that ends well.
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Top book
- By John on 06-12-16
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-07-07
- Language: English
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