The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service. Erskine Childers

商家名称	信用等级	购买信息	订购本书
		The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service. Erskine Childers
		The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service. Erskine Childers

基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：2008年05月
·ISBN：0141031271
·条形码：9780141031279
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Red Classics

内容简介 Childers' 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.
作者简介 Erskine Childers was born in Ireland in 1870 of Anglo-Irish parents. Educated at Cambridge, he worked at the House of Commons before volunteering at the outbreak of the South African War. In 1910 Childers resigned his post in the Commons to work for the Irish cause and later did reconnaissance work during WWI. After the war he settled in Ireland and joined the Republican Army at the establishment of the Free State. He was amongst those arrested and shot in the civil war that followed.

查看更多 下一篇