スタンドファスト氏のあらすじ

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A brigadier is ordered into a disguise

   Richard Hannay is a brigadier in June 1917 when he is pulled out of the line and sent to London. Sir Walter Bullivant and Macgillivray ask him to trust them without explanation. He must drop his uniform, take the name Cornelius Brand, and pose as a South African engineer who wants peace. Hannay is furious, and he nearly refuses.

   Then he visits his friend Blaikie in a shell shock hospital. Blaikie flinches when a bird flies out of a bush, and Hannay is ashamed of his own complaints. A letter from Peter Pienaar, lame in a German prison camp, steadies him further. Peter writes without a word of grief.

   On the hills above Fosse Manor, at twilight, England takes hold of Hannay. He sees what all the fighting is for. At the Manor he meets a young nurse named Mary Lamington, who is singing Cherry Ripe in the garden. She tells him to live among half baked people and keep his eyes open.

   A man ordered to hide his courage has found what he is protecting.

2. 2

   Biggleswick teaches him to listen and argue

   Hannay's first posting is the garden city of Biggleswick, where he rents rooms from the kindly Tancred Jimson.

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3. 3

   Blenkiron names a hidden enemy

   Blenkiron appears on the Moot Hall platform, leaner and fitter than before.

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4. 4

   Amos and the Clyde test his nerve

   In Glasgow, Hannay finds Andrew Amos, a broad, grizzled joiner and shop steward who looks like an old Scottish minister.

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5. 5

   A coded pilgrim crosses the western sea

   Aboard the Tobermory, Hannay is seasick and cold, and he must stay close to Gresson without seeming to.

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6. 6

   Black cliffs hide the enemy's post office

   From a hillside above Ranna, Hannay watches Gresson row across the channel and meet a stranger.

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7. 7

   Hannay runs south by train, plane and film set

   Now Hannay must get home without being caught, and the police are watching every route.

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8. 8

   Clues pile up on a Picardy road

   Back in France, Hannay commands his brigade while he wrestles with the two odd names and the wild birds.

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9. 9

   Courage has three sizes in this book

   Courage is the theme that runs through every chapter.

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10. 10

    Pilgrim's Progress gives the story its map

    John Bunyan's allegory is more than a code in this book, because it shapes the whole route.

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