Mr. Standfast: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mr. Standfast, credited to John Buchan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Mr. Standfast, by John Buchan.Read by Nicholas Clifford This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becomes a South African conscientious objector, using the name Cornelius Brand. Under the orders of his spymaster, Sir Walter Bullivant, he travels in the book through England to Scotland, back to the Western Front, and ultimately, for the book's denouement, into the Alps. Those who know Greenmantle will meet some old friends again here, including Bullivant, the American John Blenkiron, the South African Peter Pienaar and others.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mr. Standfast
• Author credits: John Buchan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 11:52:00

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Adventure
• War Stories
• SpyStories

Track guide

1. 01 - The Wicket-Gate — 38:19
2. 02 - The Village Named Morality — 38:07
3. 03 - The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic — 25:51
4. 04 - Andrew Amos — 35:05
5. 05 - Various Doings in the West — 40:57
6. 06 - The Skirts of the Coolin — 36:37
7. 07 - I Hear of the Wild Birds — 25:44
8. 08 - The Adventures of a Bagman — 32:33
9. 09 - I Take the Wings of a Dove — 28:14
10. 10 - The Advantages of an Air Raid — 21:53
11. 11 - The Valley of Humiliation — 26:22
12. 12 - I Become a Combatant Once More — 33:28
13. 13 - The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau — 29:05
14. 14 - Mr. Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War — 48:58
15. 15 - St. Anton — 38:52
16. 16 - I Lie on a Hard Bed — 27:46
17. 17 - The Col of the Swallows — 34:12
18. 18 - The Underground Railway — 23:17
19. 19 - The Cage of the Wild Birds — 19:53
20. 20 - The Storm Breaks in the West — 33:44
21. 21 - How an Exile Returned to His Own People — 46:47
22. 22 - The Summons Comes for Mr. Standfast — 26:26

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