The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers - Books - - 9798692706331 - October 2, 2020
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The Riddle of the Sands

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I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude- save for a few black faces- have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism. It was in some such spirit, with an added touch of self-consciousness, that, at seven o'clock in the evening of 23rd September in a recent year, I was making my evening toilet in my chambers in Pall Mall. I thought the date and the place justified the parallel; to my advantage even; for the obscure Burmese administrator might well be a man of blunted sensibilities and coarse fibre, and at least he is alone with nature, while I- well, a young man of condition and fashion, who knows the right people, belongs to the right clubs, has a safe, possibly a brilliant, future in the Foreign Office- may be excused for a sense of complacent martyrdom, when, with his keen appreciation of the social calendar, he is doomed to the outer solitude of London in September.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 2, 2020
ISBN13 9798692706331
Pages 288
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 15 mm   ·   335 g
Language English  

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