Mr. Standfast by John BUCHAN read by Nicholas Clifford Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book

Описание: Mr. Standfast by John BUCHAN (1875 - 1940)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers, War & Military Fiction

Read by: Nicholas Clifford in English

Parts:
Part 2    • Mr. Standfast by John BUCHAN read by Nicho...  

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - The Wicket-Gate
00:38:19 - 02 - 02 - The Village Named Morality
01:16:26 - 03 - 03 - The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
01:42:17 - 04 - 04 - Andrew Amos
02:17:22 - 05 - 05 - Various Doings in the West
02:58:20 - 06 - 06 - The Skirts of the Coolin
03:34:57 - 07 - 07 - I Hear of the Wild Birds
04:00:41 - 08 - 08 - The Adventures of a Bagman
04:33:14 - 09 - 09 - I Take the Wings of a Dove
05:01:28 - 10 - 10 - The Advantages of an Air Raid
05:23:22 - 11 - 11 - The Valley of Humiliation
05:49:43 - 12 - 12 - I Become a Combatant Once More
06:23:11 - 13 - 13 - The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau
06:52:16 - 14 - 14 - Mr. Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War

This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig 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 Wikpedia 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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