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Mr. Standfast
John Buchan · 1919 · Adventure, Crime & Thriller
Richard Hannay is drawn from Britain to the Western Front and the Alpine borderlands, where wartime intelligence, shifting identities and an enemy network turn every road into part of the chase.
Inside this edition
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This edition
- Title
- Mr. Standfast
- Author
- John Buchan (1875–1940)
- First published
- 1919
- Illustrated plates
- 69 original artworks · 24 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 22 · about 128,162 words
- Reading time
- 8 h 33 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #560
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