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Erskine Childers

Born

in Mayfair, London, England

June 25, 1870

Died

October 24, 1922

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Military Science

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Robert Erskine Childers DSC, universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of 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 in 1922. 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 a Boer War veteran and was called back to active duty at the start of World War One.

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Erskine Childers’s books

Average rating: 3.63 · 7,903 ratings · 845 reviews · 86 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Riddle of the Sands 3.63 avg rating — 7,697 ratings — published 1903 — 1820 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V. 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1901 — 165 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riddle of the Sands & In the Ranks of the C.I.V by Erskine Childers, Shayne (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Classic Spy Novels by Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, William Le Queux 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	German Influence on British Cavalry, Vol. 5 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Framework of Home Rule really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1911 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War and the Arme Blanche really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1910 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Reads: 5 Classics by Erskine Childers, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The H.a.C. in South Africa: A Record of the Services Rendered in the South African War by Members of the Honourable Artillery Company by Erskine Childers, Basil Williams it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Times History of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902; Volume 7 by Erskine Childers, Basil Williams, Leo Amery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Erskine Childers (?)

“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”
― Erskine Childers

tags: pessimism

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“A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven...”
― Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

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“- vague, very vague.”
― Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

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June 2023 New School Classic Group Read

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 1996, 203 pages

60 votes, 29.6%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

39 votes, 19.2%

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, 1939, 208 pages

30 votes, 14.8%

One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello, 1926, 268 pages

19 votes, 9.4%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 1975, 338 pages

19 votes, 9.4%

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, 1972, 310 pages

18 votes, 8.9%

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, 1903, 336 pages

18 votes, 8.9%

203 total votes

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