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Questa spy-story, che si #65533; guadagnata il ventesimo posto nella classifica dei migliori cento romanzi gialli di tutti i tempi stilata dalla Crime Writers' Association, #65533; il primo romanzo della serie dei thriller che vede come protagonista Richard Hannay che, ingegnere minerario in Sud Africa, decide di cambiar vita e si trova spinto in una nuova carriera di agente e patriota inglese. Traduzione di Silvia Cecchini.John Buchan, l'autore, nato in Scozia ma vissuto in Sud Africa e Canada, attinge ampiamente alle sue esperienze politiche e militari e trasmette nella sua narrazione asciutta e colorita l'atmosfera tipica dei romanzi d'azione. Hitchcock rese famosa questa storia con il suo film "Il club dei 39".Traduzione di Silvia Cecchini.… (altro)
An ok story. There are problematic view on Jews. Richard Hannay goes on the run after being told of a assassination plot. Parts of it drag. Than things are wrapped up at the end. ( )
Read it because it's a classic---but it's just hilarious now. Really a hoot. When Hannay tosses the knife in the air and catches it in his lips to show his steady nerves I thought gosh, it can't get sillier than this but it does. There is a creepy anti-Semitic feel and just ridiculous twists and turns. I'm amazed that it was so popular in it's time. ( )
A strange, nonstop thriller. The narrator, whom we never really get to know, stumbles into a world of foreign intrigue as he flees a murder accusation. The pacing is odd, almost disconcerting, yet the momentum continues until it suddenly doesn't. Still fun to read. ( )
I was pleasantly surprised by this little story that caught my attention from the very first page. It's not my normal genre but I've been wanting to cross a few easier reads off my classics challenge lists. Reading it with the author's dedication in mind, it was fun to imagine him cooking up this little tale for his friend to enjoy. This was a super fun story with lots of likeable characters and just enough setting description to keep a little picture in my mind. I love how it ended---splendid! ( )
Interesting as an example of the kind of invasion adventure story serial from the period but doesn't really hold up today. The opening chapter has a guy describe a Jewish conspiracy and then when we find out he was wrong about the Jewish part our narrator calls a Greek person a "dago" - very charming example of British upper class prejudices. Overall there's just not an interesting story and the episodes are so clearly tied to fulfilling a serial format that as a novel it's hard to take seriously. It's basically readable but it's so daft and generic with boring chases around the same tiny patch of Scottish land that there's no reason to. Just a historical curiosity. 1 star is a little harsh maybe but it's just. Not good . ( )
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TO THOMAS ARTHUR NELSON (LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE)
My Dear Tommy, You and I have long cherished an affection for that elementary type of tale which Americans call the 'dime novel' and which we know as the 'shocker' - the romance where the incidents defy probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.
J. B.
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Richard Hannay is not, on the face of it, the most exciting of adventurers, yet more than any other hero he has come to embody the man of action pitted against the forces of misrule. (Introduction)
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.
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Questa spy-story, che si #65533; guadagnata il ventesimo posto nella classifica dei migliori cento romanzi gialli di tutti i tempi stilata dalla Crime Writers' Association, #65533; il primo romanzo della serie dei thriller che vede come protagonista Richard Hannay che, ingegnere minerario in Sud Africa, decide di cambiar vita e si trova spinto in una nuova carriera di agente e patriota inglese. Traduzione di Silvia Cecchini.John Buchan, l'autore, nato in Scozia ma vissuto in Sud Africa e Canada, attinge ampiamente alle sue esperienze politiche e militari e trasmette nella sua narrazione asciutta e colorita l'atmosfera tipica dei romanzi d'azione. Hitchcock rese famosa questa storia con il suo film "Il club dei 39".Traduzione di Silvia Cecchini.
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