39_steps_0807_librivox John Buchan audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org">LibriVox</a> recording of The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. Reading by Adrian Praetzellis. Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 classic film of the same name. John Buchan (1875-1940) was Governor General of Canada and a popular novelist. Although condemned by some for anti-Semitic dialog in The Thirty-Nine Steps, his character’s sentiments do not represent the view of the author who was identified in Hitler’s Sonderfahndungsliste (special search list) as a “Jewish sympathiser.” (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis) 2008-07-13 2008 librivox; audiobook; mystery; spies http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2008-07-13 23:27:26 info@librivox.org LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2008-07-14 00:16:50 librivoxbooks