"The Riddle of the Sands The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel ""owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"". It was a spy novel that ""established a formula that included a mass"
"Erskine Childers (author) Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers (), was an Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel ""The Riddle of the Sands"", and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht ""Asgard"". He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Childers was born"
"Pimpernel"" (1905) by Baroness Orczy chronicled an English aristocrat's derring-do in rescuing French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror of the populist French Revolution (1789–99). But the term ""spy novel"" was defined by ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903) by Irish author Erskine Childers. It described amateur spies discovering a German plan to invade Britain. Its success created a market for the invasion literature subgenre, which was flooded by imitators. William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim became the most widely read and most successful British writers of spy fiction, especially of invasion literature. Their prosaic style and formulaic stories,"
"Secret of the Sands Secret of the Sands is a historical novel written by Scottish writer Sara Sheridan. The book was first published by HarperCollins in 2011. It is set in 1833 and has themes of colonialism and slavery. The novel is set in 1833, during a British naval survey of the coastline of the Arabian Peninsula. An ambitious Lieutenant James Wellstead's plans are thrown into disarray when two of his shipmates, Jones and Jessop, go missing in the desert while gathering intelligence and he has to carry out a daring rescue. Slavery is still rife throughout Arabia. Zena, a"
"alleged military unpreparedness."" It was a notable influence on John Buchan, and on Ken Follett, who described it as ""an open-air adventure thriller about two young men who stumble upon a German armada preparing to invade England."" Follett has also called it ""the first modern thriller"". Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones listed ""The Riddle of the Sands"" as one of the ten classic spy novels, in ""The Guardian""'s best spy novel list. Robert McCrum of ""The Observer"" included it in his list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. ""The Daily Telegraph"" has cited the book as the second best spy novel"
"(TD) from 1938 to 1973. His father Robert Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller ""The Riddle of the Sands"", was executed during the Irish Civil War. Childers was born in the Embankment Gardens, London, to a Protestant family, originally from Glendalough, Ireland. Although also born in England, his father, Robert Erskine Childers, had had an Irish mother and had been raised by an uncle in County Wicklow, and after the First World War took his family to live there. His mother, Mary Alden Childers was a Bostonian whose ancestors arrived on the ""Mayflower"". Robert"
"the growing threat of conflict in Europe and the revolutionary and anarchist domestic threat. The ""spy novel"" was defined by ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903) by author Erskine Childers, which played on public fears of a German plan to invade Britain (an amateur spy uncovers the nefarious plot). In the wake of Childers's success there followed a flood of imitators, including William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim. The first World War (1914–1918) saw the honing and refinement of modern espionage techniques as all the belligerent powers utilized their intelligence services to obtain military intelligence, to commit acts of"
"Asgard (yacht) Asgard is a gaff rigged yacht. She was owned by the English-born writer and Irish nationalist Erskine Childers and his wife Molly Childers. She is most noted for her use in the Howth gun-running of 1914. ""Asgard"" is sometimes mistaken for ""Dulcibella"", the boat in Robert Erskine Childers's classic novel ""The Riddle of the Sands"". This was based on a smaller vessel, ""Vixen"", previously owned by Childers. ""Asgard"" was bought for £1,000 in 1904 (£84,000 in 2006) from one of Norway's most famous boat designers, Colin Archer. The interior was custom built to the specifications of Childers and"
"Black Rock Pictures included the arrest and trial of Childers in its six-part television series ""Bású na gCarad"" (""The Friends' Execution""), broadcast on TG4 in September 2012. Childers was played by Dominic Frisby. Erskine Childers (author) Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers (), was an Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel ""The Riddle of the Sands"", and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht ""Asgard"". He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He"
"RM and Lieutenant Vivian Brandon RN, undertook a sailing holiday along the same section of the Frisian coast, during which they collected information about German naval installations. The two men were sentenced to four years custody by a military court in Leipzig, but they were pardoned by the Emperor in 1913. They joined ""Room 40"", the intelligence and decoding section of the British Admiralty, on the outbreak of war. ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1979) is a film adaptation of the book, starring Michael York as Charles Carruthers and Simon MacCorkindale as Arthur Davies. In Germany, the novel was popularised"
"The Sand Pebbles The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the ""Saturday Evening Post"", and in January 1963 it was published by Harper & Row. In 1966 it was used as the storyline for a movie of the same name starring Steve McQueen. Richard McKenna served aboard a Yangtze River gunboat in 1936 but set the novel a decade earlier, during the Nationalist Northern Expedition of 1925–1927, aboard"
"Rankin. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), is an early example of spy fiction. A noted writer in the spy novel genre was John le Carré, while in thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), and nine short story works. Hungarian-born Emma Orczy's (1865–1947) original play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", opened in October 1903 at Nottingham's Theatre Royal but was not a"
"The Book of Sand ""The Book of Sand"" () is a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It has parallels to the same author's 1949 story ""The Zahir"" (revised 1974), continuing the theme of self-reference and attempting to abandon the terribly infinite. The story was first published in 1975, in Spanish, as the last of 13 stories in a book of the same name. The first English translation – by Norman Thomas di Giovanni – was published in ""The New Yorker""; the entire volume ""The Book of Sand"" () first appeared in English in 1977. An unnamed"
"Richard McKenna Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel, ""The Sand Pebbles"" which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1926. McKenna was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, on May 9, 1913. Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S. Navy in 1931 at the age of 18. He served for 22 years, including 10"
"Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories"" (1973) collects the title story and four other short works: ""Hunter Come Home"", ""The Secret Place"", ""Mine Own Ways"", and ""Fiddler's Green"". The collections ""The Sons of Martha"" and ""The Left Handed Monkey Wrench"" were also published posthumously. McKenna suffered a heart attack and died at his Chapel Hill N.C. home on November 4, 1964, at age 51. Richard McKenna Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel, ""The Sand Pebbles"" which tells the story of an American"
"Nessa Childers Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland since 2009. She is an Independent politician, but part of the Party of European Socialists. She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers. Her paternal grandfather was Erskine Childers, a leading Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller ""The Riddle of the Sands"". She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College"
"Scots. The poet Michael Longley (born 1939) has experimented with Ulster Scots for the translation of Classical verse, as in his 1995 collection ""The Ghost Orchid"". Among significant writers in this genre in the early twentieth-century were Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), who wrote spy novels, Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) author of ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", an historical romance which recounted the adventures of a member of the English gentry in the French Revolutionary period. The title character established the notion of a ""hero with a secret identity"" into popular culture. John Buchan wrote adventure novels like ""Prester"
"Captains of the Sands Captains of the Sands () is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Their ages range from seven to sixteen and they live by begging, gambling, stealing and burglary in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The protagonist is Pedro Bala, the leader of the gang, and other important characters include the Professor, Boa-Vida, Barandão, João Grande and Sem-Pernas. Critics have tended to dismiss Amado’s earlier works, such as ""Captains of the Sands"", as being political rather than literary and for incorporating popular"
"headstrong Abyssinian beauty who was torn from her village, is now being offered for sale as a slave in the market of Muscat. However, her fortunes change when she finds herself in the company of the lieutenant. She must accompany him on his hazardous mission, forced to make big choices, and little knowing the fate that awaits them. Secret of the Sands is set in the historical world of 1833 on the Arabian Peninsula. Secret of the Sands Secret of the Sands is a historical novel written by Scottish writer Sara Sheridan. The book was first published by HarperCollins in"
"Rebel of the Sands Rebel of the Sands is a 2016 young adult novel written by Alwyn Hamilton. ""Rebel of the Sands"" is Hamilton's debut novel. This is the first book of the trilogy. Sixteen-year-old gunslinger and sharpshooter Amani Al'Hiza has the elemental power to control the sands of the desert. An orphan, she itches to leave Dustwalk, the small village where she lives with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. Amani escapes to travel across the desert with Jin, a mysterious foreigner. They encounter many dangers along the journey as they defend themselves against mythical creatures such as the ""Nightmares"""
"The Sands of Mars The Sands of Mars is a science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. While he was already popular as a short story writer and as a magazine contributor, ""The Sands of Mars"" was also a prelude to Clarke's becoming one of the world's foremost writers of science fiction novels. The story was published in 1951, before humans had achieved space flight. It is set principally on the planet Mars, which has been settled by humans and is used essentially as a research establishment. The story setting is that Mars has been surveyed but not"
"Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ""The Graveyard Book"" (2008). In 2013, ""The Ocean at the End of"
"and west of Ireland, areas ravaged with poverty. ""I have come back,"" he wrote to Basil Williams, ""finally and immutably a convert to Home Rule... though we both grew up steeped in the most irreconcilable sort of Unionism."" In the autumn of 1910 Childers resigned his post as Clerk of Petitions to leave himself free to join the Liberal Party, with its declared commitment to Home Rule, and in May 1912 he secured for himself the candidature in one of the parliamentary seats in the naval town of Devonport. As the well-known writer of ""The Riddle of the Sands"", with"
"famous spy novel ""The Riddle of the Sands"", an important figure in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War (during which he was executed), and father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Towards the end of his ministerial career ""HCE"" Childers was known for his girth, and so acquired the nickname ""Here Comes Everybody"", which was later used as a motif in ""Finnegans Wake"" by James Joyce. Childers died in January 1896, aged 68. He is buried on the south side of the central enclosed roundel in Brompton Cemetery, London. Hugh Childers Hugh Culling Eardley"
"and counter-attacks, leading to the destruction of all major cities and centers, the collapse of world economy, disintegration of all the fighting nations and the sinking of the world into new Middle Ages. ""Dracula"" (1897) also tapped into English fears of foreign forces arriving unopposed on its shores, although between 1870 and 1903 the majority of these works assumed that the enemy would be France, rather than Germany. This changed with the publication of Erskine Childers's 1903 novel ""The Riddle of the Sands"". Often called the first modern spy novel, two men on a sailing holiday thwart a German invasion"
"Germany and – as a prospectively independent nation – Ireland too would gain. In mid-August 1914 he again volunteered and received a temporary commission as lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, although hostile to spending money on armaments at the time ""The Riddle of the Sands"" was published, later gave the book the credit for persuading public opinion to fund vital measures against the German naval threat, and he was instrumental in securing Childers's recall. His first task was, in reversal of the plot of ""The Riddle of the Sands"", to"
"The Mystery of the Sardine The Mystery of the Sardine is a novel by Polish-English writer Stefan Themerson. Initially the novel was called ""Euclid was an Ass"", named thusly for a tract written on Euclidean geometry by one of the characters. The manuscript came to the attention of the Dutch publisher De Harmonie, which had taken over Themerson's own Gaberbocchus Press, through which he had published his and his wife Franciszka's work, on a small scale. In 1985 a Dutch translation by Carol Limonard was published by De Bezige Bij. Through a Dutch-speaking person with connections to the English publisher"
"Riddle of the Seventh Stone Riddle of the Seventh Stone is a 2010 novel by Monideepa Sahu. This fantasy novel for children is set in Bangalore, India. The book was longlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for 2011. Set in a herb shop on a bustling road in Bangalore, this book is about a spider and rat magically turning into human children. As children with help from their vermin friends the duo gang up with the grandchildren of the herb shop owner to save it from a land shark. In the course of their adventures they come across an"
"Anthony Hope's swashbuckling Ruritanian adventure novels ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" 1894, and ""Rupert of Hentzau"", 1898. F. Anstey's comic novel ""Vice Versa"" 1882, sees a father and son magically switch bodies. Satirist Jerome K. Jerome's ""Three Men in a Boat"" 1889, is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the river Thames. Grossmith brothers George & Weedon's ""Diary of a Nobody"" 1892, is also considered a classic work of humour. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), defined the spy novel and Follett has also called it ""the first modern thriller"". Emma Orczy's ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1903) was"
"The Sands of Time (Hoeye novel) The Sands of Time is a children's fantasy novel by Michael Hoeye. ""The Sands of Time"" is the second in the Hermux Tantamoq series beginning with ""Time Stops for No Mouse"", followed by ""No Time Like Show Time"", and ""Time to Smell the Roses"". In each one Hermux Tantamoq, mouse, watchmaker, and occasional detective, is the main character. At the beginning of the story, protagonist Hermux Tantamoq is approached by his father's friend, Birch Tentintrotter, to investigate whether the present-day rodent civilization was preceded, and its technology informed, by a feline civilization now obscured."
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"from Germany. This was developed further in popular magazines such as the ""National Review"" and in novels such as Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" and invasion novels such as William Le Queux's ""The Invasion of 1910"". Following the British declaration of war with Germany on 4 August 1914, Speyer resigned as a partner of the Frankfurt branch of the bank. After a Royal Proclamation on 11 September 1914 requiring British subjects to have no links with companies doing business with Germany, Speyer resigned as a partner of the American bank. Nonetheless, suspicions regarding Speyer's German parentage led to"
"escape and uses the treasure to reinvent himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. Thirsting for vengeance, he sets out to punish those who destroyed his life. ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903) is ""the first modern thriller"", according to Ken Follett, who described it as ""an open-air adventure thriller about two young men who stumble upon a German armada preparing to invade England"". ""Heart of Darkness"" (1903) is a first-person within a first-person account about a man named Marlow who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader named Kurtz. Layer by layer, the atrocities"