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Fiction · 1903

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

Reading time
about 8 h
Length
108,969 words · 200 pages
Structure
29 chapters · 4 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

The Riddle of the Sands, first published in 1903, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Epigraph
  2. Preface
  3. Note
  4. Chapter I — The Letter
  5. Chapter II — The Dulcibella
  6. Chapter III — Davies
  7. Chapter IV — Retrospect
  8. Chapter V — Wanted, a North Wind
  9. Chapter VI — Schlei Fiord
  10. Chapter VII — The Missing Page
  11. Chapter VIII — The Theory
  12. Chapter IX — I Sign Articles
  13. Chapter X — His Chance
  14. Chapter XI — The Pathfinders
  15. Chapter XII — My Initiation
  16. Chapter XIII — The Meaning of our Work
  17. Chapter XIV — The First Night in the Islands
  18. Chapter XV — Bensersiel
  19. Chapter XVI — Commander von Brüning
  20. Chapter XVII — Clearing the Air
  21. Chapter XVIII — Imperial Escort
  22. Chapter XIX — The Rubicon
  23. Chapter XX — The Little Drab Book
  24. Chapter XXI — Blindfold to Memmert
  25. Chapter XXII — The Quartette
  26. Chapter XXIII — A Change of Tactics
  27. Chapter XXIV — Finesse
  28. Chapter XXV — I Double Back
  29. Chapter XXVI — The Seven Siels
  30. Chapter XXVII — The Luck of the Stowaway
  31. Chapter XXVIII — We Achieve our Double Aim
  32. Epilogue — By the Editor
  33. Postscript (March 1903)

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