"The 39 Steps (1959 film) The 39 Steps is a 1959 British thriller film produced by Betty Box, directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More and Taina Elg. It is a remake of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, loosely based on the novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" by John Buchan. In the film, diplomat Richard Hannay returns home to London, only to become inadvertently embroiled in the death of a British spy investigating the head of an organisation planning to sell the secret of a British ballistic missile. Hannay thus travels to Scotland to escape the police, and attempts to"
"The 39 Steps (play) The 39 Steps is a parody adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept and production of a four-actor version of the story was by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon. Patrick Barlow rewrote this adaptation in 2005. The play's concept calls for the entirety of the 1935 adventure film ""The 39 Steps"" to be performed with a cast of only four. One actor plays the hero, Richard Hannay, an actress (or sometimes actor) plays the three women with whom he has romantic entanglements, and two other"
"in another role in the play. Apart from the transfers to London and Broadway, this lists only the first production in a country. The 39 Steps (play) The 39 Steps is a parody adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept and production of a four-actor version of the story was by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon. Patrick Barlow rewrote this adaptation in 2005. The play's concept calls for the entirety of the 1935 adventure film ""The 39 Steps"" to be performed with a cast of only four. One actor"
"Thirteen Steps (novel) Thirteen Steps is a 1988 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan. It first appeared in 1988 in the literary magazine ""Wenxue si ji"". It later appeared in book form in April 1989. The protagonist is a madman locked in an iron cage. He relies upon the audience (or listeners) to feed him chalk so that he can prolong his own life and spit out tales of the miraculous and inconceivable about the lives of others. Through these unreliable narrative bits and pieces, community histories are being reinvented, creating ”a grotesque and unpleasant aura” as it critiques"
"The Mystery of the 99 Steps The Mystery of the 99 Steps is the forty-third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1966 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. But before she leaves the United States for France, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to join her father who"
"reader spellbound with suspense. The Mystery of the 99 Steps The Mystery of the 99 Steps is the forty-third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1966 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Nancy looks for a flight of the 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's strange dream. But before she leaves the United States for France, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to"
"the excesses of China’s capitalist development. Thirteen Steps (novel) Thirteen Steps is a 1988 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan. It first appeared in 1988 in the literary magazine ""Wenxue si ji"". It later appeared in book form in April 1989. The protagonist is a madman locked in an iron cage. He relies upon the audience (or listeners) to feed him chalk so that he can prolong his own life and spit out tales of the miraculous and inconceivable about the lives of others. Through these unreliable narrative bits and pieces, community histories are being reinvented, creating ”a grotesque"
"in The Thirty-Nine Steps book and films. The Artie Conan Doyle Mysteries: The Gravediggers Club The Vanishing Dragon Richard Hannay Returns: The Thirty-One Kings Robert J. Harris (writer) Robert J. Harris (Bob) is a Scottish academic and author, particularly of children's fantasies and historical novels, best known for his collaborations with Jane Yolen. He also designed the fantasy board game ""Talisman"" and its sequel ""Mythgardia"". Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St. Andrews, achieving a first class honours degree in Latin. Harris lives in Scotland and is married to American author Deborah Turner Harris. His"
"her to write a number of sequels for her ""reckless daredevil"" over the next 35 years. The play was performed to great acclaim in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, while the novel was translated into 16 languages. Subsequently, the story has been adapted for television, film, a musical and other media. John Buchan (1875–1940) published the adventure novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" in 1915. The novelist Georgette Heyer created the historical romance genre. The Kailyard school of Scottish writers, notably J. M. Barrie (1869–1937), creator of ""Peter Pan"" (1904), presented an idealised version of society and brought of fantasy and folklore"
"not easily navigated. It’s similar to a metaphor for a journey with blind spots and false turns where some things are hidden. In the 1935 release of Thirty-Nine Steps , character Richard Hannay leaves a theatre with a mysterious and attractive woman, they begin a romance adventure journey into the world of spies, double agents and espionage. Author John Buchan was a pioneer of spy thrillers, adding romance and adventure traditions into the then new context of political conflict. The possibility of romance between the mysterious woman, and a decent gentleman was only a minor consideration to Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation."
"Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film ""The 39 Steps"" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. In his autobiography, ""Memory Hold-the-Door"", Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: He also appears as a minor character in: ""The Thirty-One Kings"" (2017), by"
"1915 published his most famous work, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"", a spy-thriller set just prior to World War I. The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa. A sequel, ""Greenmantle"", came the following year. In June 1916 Buchan was sent out to the Western Front to be attached to the British Army's General Head Quarters Intelligence Section, to assist with drafting official communiques for the press. On arrival he received a field-commission as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. Recognised for his"
"Steps (book) Steps is a book by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, released in 1968 by Random House. The work comprises scores of loosely connected vignettes or short stories, which explore themes of social control and alienation by depicting scenes rich in erotic and violent motives. ""Steps"" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1969. ""Steps"" was Kosiński's second novel, a follow-up to his successful ""The Painted Bird"" released in 1965. It consists of a series of short stories, reminiscences, anecdotes and dialogues, loosely linked to each other or having no connection at all, written in the first"
"Library (OUP 1979), The Britten Companion (Faber 1984), A Companion to the Concerto(Christopher Helm 1988), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classical Music (Salamander Books 1989), A Guide to Classical Composers (ed Gammond, Colour Library Books 1994), International Dictionary of Opera (St James Press 1993). He wrote for The Inventions That Changed The World (Readers Digest 1982) and The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought (Fontana 1983) Headington made few concert appearances. He was piano soloist on the soundtrack of the 1978 film ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" (the composer was Ed Welch). He also went on to release 4 further albums on"
"Thirteen Steps Down Thirteen Steps Down (2004) is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell. Its publication in the UK marked Rendell's 40th anniversary of being published, and all hardcover copies of the book had a special promotional notice on the cover celebrating this. Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, spends her time reading and pondering lost loves, Mix grows dangerously obsessed with serial killer John Christie and a"
"in 1890. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, where he became a rugby player. He then went to study Classics at Oxford University, where he befriended John Buchan. Nelson played for Oxford University RFC and was capped for in 1898. The John Buchan novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915) is dedicated to him. Nelson and Buchan had been friends since Nelson was an undergraduate at University College, Oxford. He became head of the family publishing firm of Thomas Nelson and Sons, which employed Buchan as literary advisor and was one of the writer's publishers. Nelson was killed on 9 April 1917"
"of England when they discover a secret fleet of invasion barges assembling on the German coast. Of these hundreds of authors, few are in print now. Saki is one of the exceptions, although his 1913 novel ""When William Came"" (subtitled ""A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns"") is more jingoistic than literary. Another is John Buchan, whose novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"", published in 1915 but written just prior to the outbreak of World War I, is a thriller dealing with German agents in Britain preparing for an invasion. William Le Queux was the most prolific author of the genre; his"
"Book of Steps The Book of Steps (, ""Kṯāḇâ ḏ-Masqāṯâ""; also known by the Latin name ""Liber Graduum"") is an anonymous Syriac treatise on spiritual direction, probably written in the late fourth century AD (or possibly early fifth century). The author appears to be living in the Persian Empire, perhaps somewhere near the Lesser Zab, as it is mentioned in Memra Thirty, and addresses the author's own Christian community. The ""Book of Steps"" is divided into thirty chapters, or ""discourses"" (, ""mêmrê""). The first discourse, and subsequent ones (especially number 14), divides the community into two groups. One group is"
"defended by others such as Roger Kimball, who stated that Buchan's anti-Semitism was merely representative of society at that time and that Buchan denounced Hitler's anti-Semitic policies in 1934.) In recognition of his contributions to literature and education, on 1 January 1932, Buchan was granted the personal gift of the sovereign of induction into the Order of the Companions of Honour. In 1935 Buchan's literary work was adapted for the cinema with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"", starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered. This came in the same year that Buchan"
"plaque, was sent to Buchan. The mysterious phrase ""Thirty-Nine Steps"", first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his"
"Leicester Square Theatre, and subsequently performed in the play around the UK on tour. He lists this as his favourite theatre job. Returned to the theatre in the West End to appear as one of four actors in ""The 39 Steps"", a stage production of the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by John Buchan and adapted by Patrick Barlow at the Criterion Theatre on Piccadilly Circus. The play involves the four actors playing all the 150 characters in the Hitchcock film which involves lightning quick costume and character changes. Has performed in many British television programmes"
"of Caithness. In 1913 he petitioned the Lord Lyon, taking the surname and arms of Buchan of Auchmacoy. The Earl of Caithness's daughter, Lady Lucy Buchan married Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, who was the Lord Lyon in 1928. Their son was Sir Malcolm Innes of Edengight, the present Lord Lyon. His eldest daughter became the seventeenth of Auchmacoy and her son changed his name to Buchan in 1949 to be recognized by the Lord Lyon as chief of Buchans. Perhaps the most famous Buchan was John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Governor General of"
"a celebrated writer for film in the 1920s and 30s. He wrote the scripts for ""Too Many Crooks"", 1930, ""The 39 Steps"", 1935, ""Night Mail"", 1936, and """", 1936. He disliked public attention and was rather introverted. He was a member of several gentlemen's clubs in London, including ""White's"", ""Boodle's"", and ""The Athenaeum Club"". Though he spent most of his time at the ""East India Club"", in St James' Square, London. Kenneth Westman, Baron Westman Kenneth Edwin Westman, Baron Westman FRHistSoc was an English barrister, writer, and member of the English peerage. Westman attended The Hall School, Hampstead and Westminster"
"Mr Standfast Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Greenmantle"" (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"", to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of ""Pilgrim's Progress"" to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and letters from his"
"and Ayr. The journey by railway and ferry via Stranraer to Larne Harbour or since the line closed to the Port of Belfast is much longer. The station features in ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915) by John Buchan. Richard Hannay, fleeing from German secret agents, travels from London St Pancras to Galloway, changing trains at Dumfries. In 1939, T.S. Eliot included Dumfries in his ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"". Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat, speaks with the police at Dumfries Station during the night. Carnation built an evaporated milk factory in Dumfries that opened in 1935, eventually constructing three units producing"
"Madeleine Carroll Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935). She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war. Carroll was born at"
"box office in 1935–36. Of the four major film versions of the novel, Hitchcock's film has been the most acclaimed. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the fourth best British film of the 20th century; in 2004, ""Total Film"" named it the 21st greatest British movie ever made, and in 2011 ranked it the second-best book-to-film adaptation of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ""Time Out"" magazine saw it ranked the 13th best British film ever. ""The 39 Steps"" was one of Orson Welles' favourite Hitchcock films, and of"
"Riceyman Steps Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area of London. Arnold Bennett was a keen amateur sailor and it was while on sailing trips on the Solent he discovered a chaotic second-hand bookshop in Southampton. He would visit the shop when bad weather prevented sailing and on one visit he bought a book on misers for sixpence. This book and the"
"Also, in 2008, Penguin Books adapted the story as interactive fiction under the authorship of Charles Cumming calling it ""The 21 Steps"". A digital adaptation of Buchan's book, created with Unity, was made by Scottish developer The Story Mechanics and released on 25 April 2013, for Windows, OS X, Linux and iPad. This version is entirely faithful to the plot of the book. Buchan wrote the book while he was recuperating from illness at a house called St Cuby, Cliff Promenade, Broadstairs. As mentioned in the Background section, the original steps were demolished, and a part of them was sent"
"Taking Steps Taking Steps is a 1979 farce by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is set on three floors of an old and reputedly haunted house, with the stage arranged so that the stairs are flat and all three floors are on a single level (hence the play on words in the title). There are six characters in the play: The play is set in a dilapidated Victorian three-storey country house, reputedly a former bordello and said to be haunted by a deceased prostitute. According to the set design favoured by the author, all three floors are represented on stage"
"his writing career, notably writing ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940. Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom. Buchan was born in Perth, Scotland, the first child of John Buchan—a Free Church of"
"the Morning"" (1929). Mr Standfast Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Greenmantle"" (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"", to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of ""Pilgrim's Progress"" to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and"
"poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet tale. The character of Elsie reappears in ""Elsie and the Child: A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories"" (1924). Riceyman Steps Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell area of London. Arnold Bennett was a keen amateur sailor and it was while on sailing trips on the Solent he discovered a chaotic"