![]() ![]() Stumm, the bully, is intended as a symbol of Britain's war enemy of the time, Imperial Germany. Buchan saw his novel-writing as part of the war effort. ![]() ![]() Just as the British and American characters are positive, slightly jingoistic clichés, many of the German characters are negative clichés for example, Colonel von Stumm is an ox-necked, bull-like bully with secret effeminate (possibly homosexual) tastes. 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. 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. Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. ![]()
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