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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service - Softcover

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Childers, Erskine

 
9780140621433: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140621431 ISBN 13: 9780140621433
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Childers's lone masterpiece, The Riddle of the Sands, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s - an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to lead to war.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Erskine Childers was born in Ireland in 1870 of Anglo-Irish parents. Educated at Cambridge, he worked at the House of Commons before volunteering at the outbreak of the South African War. In 1910 Childers resigned his post in the Commons to work for the Irish cause and later did reconnaissance work during WWI. After the war he settled in Ireland and joined the Republican Army at the establishment of the Free State. He was amongst those arrested and shot in the civil war that followed.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140621431
ISBN 13 
9780140621433
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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