Bibliograph

The riddle of the sands, Erskine Childers

Type

Label

The riddle of the sands, Erskine Childers

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The riddle of the sands

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Erskine Childers

Series statement

Dover thrift editions

Summary

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Riddle of the Sands is the first modern English espionage novel. Long before World War I, but in an atmosphere of growing mistrust between Britain and Germany, two English sailors stumble into a secret spying mystery on the treacherous and stormy mudflats of the German coast. They sail the Dulcibella into wild wind and weather, and enter a battle of wits with the sea as well as with the mysterious Herr Dollmann and his innocent daughter, Clara. Childers' narrative style is clear and uncomplicated, and his sailing adventure is a joy to read, still popular after one hundred years. He hauled spies and detectives into the twentieth century by favoring fact over romance and combined nineteenth-century adventure from Scott and Stevenson with schoolboy stories, Kipling's Empire, and prophecies of war

Target audience

adult

Classification