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a record of secret service

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An edition of The Riddle of the Sands (1903)

The riddle of the sands

a record of secret service

by

  • ★★★ 3.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 89 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. A vivid exploration of the mysteries of seamanship, the story builds in excitement as together the two adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.

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Oxford University Press
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English
Pages
268

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Subjects
Great britain, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, sea stories, Large type books, Fiction, Invasions, History, Secret service, Sailing, British, Classic Literature, Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, espionage, General, Invasions of Great Britain, English Spy stories, Secret service -- Fiction, Sailing -- Fiction, Spy fiction, Alternative histories (Fiction), Adventure fiction, Sea stories, Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction, Frisian Islands -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History, Europe -- Frisian Islands, Great Britain, Readers, English language, juvenile literature
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Great Britain, Frisian Islands, Europe

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The Riddle of the Sands
Nov 07, 2017, Macmillan Collector's Library
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The Riddle of the Sands
2017, Standard Ebooks
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
2011, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics
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The riddle of the sands
2009, Atlantic Books
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
2007, Penguin Books
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
1999, Penguin
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
1995, Oxford University Press
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
1978, Sidgwick & Jackson in association with New English Library
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
1978, Penguin Books
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Cover of: THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS. A RECORD OF SECRET SERVICE. BY ERSKINE CHILDERS. FOREW. BY ERSKINE HAMILTON CHILDERS. INTROD. BY THE EARL OF LONGFORD
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS. A RECORD OF SECRET SERVICE. BY ERSKINE CHILDERS. FOREW. BY ERSKINE HAMILTON CHILDERS. INTROD. BY THE EARL OF LONGFORD
1972, SIDGWICK AND JACKSON
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The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service
1915, Dodd, Mead & co.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford popular fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6005.H52 R52 1995, PR6005.H52 R52 1998, PR6005.H52 R52 1998eb, PR6005.H52R52 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 268 p. :
Number of pages
268

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1079966M
Internet Archive
riddleofsandsrec0000chil_y0b1
ISBN 10
0192823183
LCCN
94003422, 98016807
OCLC/WorldCat
30666939
Library Thing
21291

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Work Description

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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I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black faces-have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism.
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