Audiolibro: Mr. Standfast
- Download 01 - The Wicket-Gate audio
- Download 02 - The Village Named Morality audio
- Download 03 - The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic audio
- Download 04 - Andrew Amos audio
- Download 05 - Various Doings in the West audio
- Download 06 - The Skirts of the Coolin audio
- Download 07 - I Hear of the Wild Birds audio
- Download 08 - The Adventures of a Bagman audio
- Download 09 - I Take the Wings of a Dove audio
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- Download 11 - The Valley of Humiliation audio
- Download 12 - I Become a Combatant Once More audio
- Download 13 - The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau audio
- Download 14 - Mr. Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War audio
- Download 15 - St. Anton audio
- Download 16 - I Lie on a Hard Bed audio
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- Download 19 - The Cage of the Wild Birds audio
- Download 20 - The Storm Breaks in the West audio
- Download 21 - How an Exile Returned to His Own People audio
- Download 22 - The Summons Comes for Mr. Standfast audio
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This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becomes a South African conscientious objector, using the name Cornelius Brand. Under the orders of his spymaster, Sir Walter Bullivant, he travels in the book through England to Scotland, back to the Western Front, and ultimately, for the book's denouement, into the Alps. Those who know Greenmantle will meet some old friends again here, including Bullivant, the American John Blenkiron, the South African Peter Pienaar and others.
To quote Hannay's contemporary, Sherlock Holmes, “The game's afoot!” How will it come out? And though Hannay is no James Bond, might he perhaps be a literary ancestor of Ian Fleming's Agent Double-O Seven? Judge for yourself.
There are also a fair number of unpronounceable Gaelic names. A further warning: this book was published in 1919 and it reflects a certain number of standards and mores of the day. It is by no means free of racist remarks and attitudes, and it is quite clear that Hannay has no use for pacifists, socialists, feminists, overly intellectual professors, and so forth. How far Hannay's fictional views mirror those of Buchan himself, I could not possibly say. Buchan of course went on to become first Baron Tweedsmuir, and Governor-General of Canada from 1935 until his death in 1940 (if you go to his Wikipedia site, you can see him very unhappily attired in a Native American headdress. President Calvin Coolidge, photographed the same way in 1927, looked equally unhappy).
(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)
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