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Adventure · 1919 · English

Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan

About this book

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan explores world war, 1914-1918 — fiction, war stories, spy stories.

From the opening pages: “I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet…”

Author
John Buchan
First published
1919
Category
Adventure
Language
English

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