Greenmantle: The First Dialogue
- ISBN-10
- 161104278X
- ISBN-13
- 9781611042788
- Series
- Greenmantle
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-11-01
- Publisher
- Readaclassic.com
- Author
- John Buchan
Description
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. The book was very popular when published, and was read and enjoyed by Robert Baden-Powell and by the Russian imperial family as they awaited the outcome of the Revolution in 1917. All Turks, Greeks and Jews in Constantinople are racial stereotypes, as are the comic Afrikaners who appear in the periphery of the novel. Critics have claimed that the weakest elements in this book are the clunky narrative crutches Buchan uses, particularly the many unlikely coincidences and sit-down narratives with which subsidiary characters are brought in at predictable moments and made to tell their adventures. The first chapter of Greenmantle, "A Mission is Proposed," was chosen by Graham Greene for his 1957 anthology The Spy's Bedside Book.
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