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| I have long cherished that elementary type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime novel,’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’—the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. |
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| 1875–1940, Scottish author and statesman. Included among his works are a four-volume history (1921–22) of World War I; biographies of Julius Caesar (1932), Scott (1932), and Cromwell (1934); and adventure novels, including The Thirty-nine Steps (1915), The Path of the King (1921), and Mountain Meadow (1941).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  b k´ n, b ´- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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The basis for the 1935 Hitchcock film, Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is a thoroughly engaging mystery novel filled with intrigue and suspense.
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