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The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic adventure book packed with a political conspiracy and spy intelligence. The book is a short read and holds a good storyline. The incidents of the story are pushed for the first world war in the end. The book was written by John Buchan while he was bedridden due to an illness. And the name of the novel's origin runs to an incident when the author's daughter once was counting stairs and said to him that there were thirty-nine steps there. The novel has been adapt
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I listened to the librivox.org recording of this book. The reading was excellent, but the material is starting to show some strain from it's age. There was not a single female mentioned in the entire book and there was enough anti-semitisim and other jingoism that it was painfully noticeable. But, books are read in the context of their time, and in 1915, this was already becoming an alternate history to the start of WWI.
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