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The thirty-nine steps

 
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dc.contributor.author Buchan, John
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dc.date.created 1915
dc.date.issued 1993-11-10
dc.identifier ota:1978
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1978
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Fiction -- Great Britain -- 20th century
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dc.title The thirty-nine steps
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by JOHN BUCHAN

28 Oct 1993

Scanned and proofread by Kirk Robinson
<kirkr@panix.com>
Version used David R.Godine-Publisher 1990 softcover edition


Copyright 1915 by The Curtis Publishing Company

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The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan



1   The Man Who Died

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that
May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had
been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up
with it. If any one had told me a year ago that I would
have been feeling like that I should have laughed at
him; but there was the fact. The weather made me
liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me
sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the
amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water
that has been standing . . .
										

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