Book review / Riddle of the human envelope

The Independent - London | May 18, 1996| | Copyright

There are books which it is impossible to read without developing a liking for their author, and The Riddle of the Sands is one of them. Like John Buchan or Robert Louis Stevenson, Childers doesn't just tell a thrilling tale; he conveys through it a moral code that he does the reader the compliment of assuming to be a shared one. We come away from Greenmantle, Kidnapped or The Riddle the better for them; even today, when courage is out of fashion and few authors dare to assume that their readers could have heroic aspirations.

This highly unusual quality makes it particularly shocking to ...

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