The thirty-nine steps /
John Buchan ; Nick Bullard retold
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- 88 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Oxford bookworms library, Stage 4 (1400 headwords), Thriller and Adventure. .
- Graded reader .
In this critical edition, Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan, publisher and lawyer, came in from the cold and, via "The Thirty-Nine Steps", ended the war as spy-master and propaganda chief. Word count 17,170
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