39_steps_0807_librivox John Buchan audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org" rel="nofollow">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) <a href="http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/M4B_Catalog" rel="nofollow">M4B audiobook of Complete Book</a> 2008-07-13 2008 librivox; audiobook; mystery; spies http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2008-07-13 23:27:26 info@librivox.org librivoxbooks librivoxbooks librivoxbooks librivoxbooks librivoxbooks 2008-07-14 00:16:50 2010-03-18 00:59:50 2010-05-25 10:04:00 2010-09-30 14:48:15 2011-08-01 02:55:25 LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2011-09-01 07:36:00 librivoxbooks