| The Riddle of the Sands Contributor(s): Childers, Erskine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974238571 ISBN-13: 9781974238576 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.87 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carr and many others." Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller. |