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Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Popular Classics) by Erskine Childers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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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- Author
- Erskine Childers
- Publisher
- Penguin; Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140621433
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (86 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Das Rätsel der Sandbank: Ein Bericht des Geheimdienstes (1988)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- The riddle of the sands: A record of secret service recently achieved (1984)
- The Riddle of the Sands : a Record of Secret Service (1995)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Classic Crime) (1955)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Wordsworth Collection) (Wordsworth Collection) (1995)
- The Riddle Of The Sands. A Record Of Secret Service. By Erskine Childers. Forew. By Erskine Hamilton Childers. Introd. By The Earl Of Longford. (1995)
- The Riddle of the Sands : a Record of Secret Service (1984)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Crime Classics) (1995)
- Das Raetsel der Sandbank. (1988)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Oxford World's Classics) (1998)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic (Penguin Classics) (2011)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Oxford World's Classics) (1995)
- Das Rätsel der Sandbank: Ein Bericht des Geheimdienstes (1903)
- The Riddle of the Sands (Crime Classics) (1903)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service,Childers, Erskine (1903)
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Oxford World's Classics) (2017)
- The Riddle of the Sands (1999)
- The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved. The Mariners Library No. 29 (1955)
- The Nine Cloud Dream (2019)
- The Riddle of the Sands (2006)
- The Riddle of the Sands (2017)
- The Riddle of the Sands : a Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved (2017)
- The Riddle of the Sands (1995)
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