The Thirty-nine Steps: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Thirty-nine Steps, 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 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Thirty-nine Steps
• Author credits: John Buchan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 4:20:42

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• spies

Track guide

1. 01 - The Man who Died — 30:14
2. 02 - The Milkman Travels — 16:31
3. 03 - The Literary Innkeeper's Adventure — 30:14
4. 04 - The Adventure of the Radical Candidate — 27:48
5. 05 - The Adenture of the Spectacled Roadman — 23:12
6. 06 - The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist — 36:51
7. 07 - The Dry-Fly Fisherman — 26:32
8. 08 - The Coming of the Black Stone — 19:10
9. 09 - The Thirty-Nine Steps — 15:40
10. 10 - Various Parties Converging on the Sea — 34:35

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