- Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Hannay, richard (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine 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.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Buchan
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Houghton Mifflin co., ReadaClassic.com
- Editions
- 521
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781523772889
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“I HAD JUST FINISHED breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram.”
A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
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