5 livres semblables à M. Standfast
Le Manteau vert
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in…
Thèmes communs : Hannay, Richard Hannay, World War I, Intelligence service
Les trois otages
Major General Sir Richard Hannay thought that his life of adventure and danger was behind him with the end of the Great War. He was wrong.
When an old colleague comes asking for help, Hannay has to come out of retirement to battle a secret society that has kidnapped three innocents to advance their schemes. Hannay, aided by his intrepid wife Mary and his old friends, plunges into a pool of…
Thèmes communs : Hannay, Richard Hannay, Intelligence service, Great Britain
Les Trente-Neuf Marches
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on…
Thèmes communs : Hannay, Richard Hannay, World War I, Intelligence service
En secret
The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands of letters for the Bureau of P. C. - whatever that may mean.
Thèmes communs : World War I, World War, Classic Literature, Thriller
L'Adieu aux armes
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the…
Thèmes communs : World War I, War stories, World War