品牌：Childers
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：288 页码
·出版日：1998年
·ISBN：0140621431
·条码：9780140621433
·版次：New Ed
·装帧：精装
·西班牙语：西班牙语
·丛书名：Penguin Popular Classics
内容简介
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One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介
Erskine Childers (1879-1922) was raised in Ireland and educated at Cambridge. He became famous in 1903 with the publication of his only novel,The Riddle of the Sands. He served as a clerk to the House of Commons from 1895 to 1910. He also served in the Boer War and as a naval intelligence officer in the 1914-1918 war. Although he was a Protestant, he became convinced of the need for Irish home rule, and from 1908 on he devoted himself to this cause. He became a member of the IRA and is credited with helping to negotiate the treaty with England that led to the Irish Free State. He was captured in the civil war that followed and shot as a traitor in November of 1922. His son, Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905-1974) was President of Ireland from 1973-1974.--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
编辑推荐
From AudioFile
Journalist, novelist, politician, agitator, spy--this author's life would make better reading than any of his fiction. Still, this spy thriller raised a lot of commotion when first published in 1903 (the year of Sherlock Holmes's retirement). Indeed, it spawned a whole genre. It is a first-person tale of stereotypical young Englishmen on the scent of German spies in the North Sea. This is all very conventional Edwardian fare except for the loving details of yachting and the prophetic hint of German imperial ambition. Dermot Kerrigan has the right sound for the hero/storyteller--youthful, energetic, just a bit strident. But whatever tension and adventure may have enlivened the book has been excised in an awkward abridgment, which also makes the plot twists hard to follow. Arbitrary pauses and a laconic pace further cut suspense. In the final analysis, this narrator fails to muster the excitement inherent to the story. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
Deirdre Donahue,USA TODAY, December 3, 1998
"These Cover to Cover tapes offer up a delectable feast for fans of the spoken word. We're talking class act here - from the elegant covers to the accomplished readers."--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
Eric Ambler
"Not only a good spy story but also one of the finest tales about small-sailing craft ever written."--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
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