Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan

Summary

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (22)

  1. 1. The Wicket-Gate
  2. 2. “The Village Named Morality”
  3. 3. The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
  4. 4. Andrew Amos
  5. 5. Various Doings in the West
  6. 6. The Skirts of the Coolin
  7. 7. I Hear of the Wild Birds
  8. 8. The Adventures of a Bagman
  9. 9. I Take the Wings of a Dove
  10. 10. The Advantages of an Air Raid
  11. 11. The Valley of Humiliation
  12. 12. I Become a Combatant Once More
  13. 13. The Adventure of the Picardy Château
  14. 14. Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
  15. 15. St Anton
  16. 16. I Lie on a Hard Bed
  17. 17. The Col of the Swallows
  18. 18. The Underground Railway
  19. 19. The Cage of the Wild Birds
  20. 20. The Storm Breaks in the West
  21. 21. How an Exile Returned to His Own People
  22. 22. The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast

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