Public-domain audiobook
Mr. Standfast (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Mr. Standfast by John Buchan: 11 h 52 min in 22 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
11 h 52 minrunning time
22sections
≈ 110,000words
About this recording
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced (much to his chagrin) to pose as a pacifist. He becomes a South African conscientious objector, using the name Cornelius Brand. Under the orders of his spymaster, Sir Walter Bullivant, he travels in the book through England to Scotland, back to the Western Front, and ultimately, for the book's denouement, into the Alps.
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.