Mr. Standfast
By John Buchan
Cover: We Are Making a New World (1918), oil on canvas by Paul Nash (1889-1946) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1946)
Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Wicket-Gate
- 2: “The Village Named Morality”
- 3: The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
- 4: Andrew Amos
- 5: Various Doings in the West
- 6: The Skirts of the Coolin
- 7: I Hear of the Wild Birds
- 8: The Adventures of a Bagman
- 9: I Take the Wings of a Dove
- 10: The Advantages of an Air Raid
- 11: The Valley of Humiliation
- 12: I Become a Combatant Once More
- 13: The Adventure of the Picardy Château
- 14: Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
- 15: St Anton
- 16: I Lie on a Hard Bed
- 17: The Col of the Swallows
- 18: The Underground Railway
- 19: The Cage of the Wild Birds
- 20: The Storm Breaks in the West
- 21: How an Exile Returned to His Own People
- 22: The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast