三十九级阶梯读后感(英文版).doc

Impressions of Book of The Thirty-nine Steps As we all know, the Thirty-nine Steps is the most famous novel of John Buchan, and typical suspense novel in the literary history. Whats more, its one of 100 typical suspense novels chosen by the Institute of American Reasoning Writers, ranking 22 in the list. Also, its in the list of 1000 must-read novels before death chosen by The Guardian. Actually, John Buchan is one of Hitchcocks most favourite writers. On the first looking into the Thirty-nine Steps, he said,I reckon it could be turned into a great film from the first time I read John Buchans the Thirty-nine Steps. However, Im merely familiar with its book title. At the first sight, Im curious about what the Thirty-nine Steps means, where it is and where it goes. Its a very interesting title. These words first appear in Chapter 4, (Thirty-nine steps) was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10：17 p.m.). According to my calculation, the thirty-nine steps appear 9 times in total. Most part come out in Chapter 9, which focuses on how the hero, Richard Hannay figured out the code the thirty-nine steps. Obviously, its a clue, which Scudder left to his fellows to find out the secret place of Black Stone where they hung out, where they were going to leave Britain, though he kept the name to himself. Therefore how to find out the code is of great importance to achieve the final success. Speak of the hero, Richard Hannay is the one who wants to adventure and has a head for things like chess and puzzles. In fact, he did a bit at it himself once as intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay during the Boer War. He is a mining engineer back to London from South Africa. But I have been wondering why the writer didnt tell his job until Hannay met Sir Harry. Apparently, Hannay was so fed up with the life in London before Scudder came to him, and he was just about to settled to clear out and get back to the African grasslands. So whe