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The Thirty-Nine Steps
''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.
The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 colour remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television.
== Background ==
John Buchan wrote ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' while he was ill in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness which remained with him all his life. The novel was his first "shocker", as he called it — a story combining personal and political dramas. The novel marked a turning point in Buchan's literary career and introduced his famous adventuring hero, Richard Hannay. He described a "shocker" as an adventure where the events in the story are unlikely and the reader is only just able to believe that they really happened.〔("Lord Tweedsmuir: novelist and son of John Buchan" ), obituary, ''The Times'' of London, July 4, 2008 ("In 1990 () Buchan published a memoir of his own early life, The Rags of Time, in which he described his family life ()"), retrieved December 8, 2008〕
Buchan's son, William, later wrote that the name of the book originated when the author's daughter was counting the stairs at a private nursing home in Broadstairs, where Buchan was convalescing. "There was a wooden staircase leading down to the beach. My sister, who was about six, and who had just learnt to count properly, went down them and gleefully announced: there are 39 steps." Some time later the house was demolished and a section of the stairs, complete with a brass plaque, was sent to Buchan.〔 The mysterious phrase ''Thirty-Nine Steps'', first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story.
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