Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.'Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. Theregeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-156370-6
- EAN: 9780191563706
- Produktnummer: 20165417
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, Uk
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London.
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