Edward Phillips Oppenheim is an English novelist, creator of adventure novels that gained immense popularity in the early 20th century. His espionage novels were widely known, where the writer was a pioneer. His works to a large extent contributed to the fact that the detective acquired not only the will and mental ability of the great detectives, but also iron grip, the ability to dodge and strike at the right time. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author...

Helena to dramat Eurypidesa, największego obok Ajschylosa i Sofoklesa tragika starożytnej Grecji.Helen otrzymuje straszną wiadomość że jej mąż, Menelaos nigdy nie powróci do Grecji z Troi gdyż nie żyje. Ta informacja stawia Helenę w niebezpiecznej sytuacji. Może zostać ona zmuszona do małżeństwa z Theoklymenosem, królem Egiptu.

URODA TO WŁADZA. Intrygująca opowieść o pierwszym światowym imperium kosmetycznym i o fascynującej kobiecie, która je zbudowała. A także o przeszłości, z którą postanowiła się rozstać. Helena Rubinstein opuściła krakowski Kazimierz w latach 90. XIX wieku, gdy miała 23 lata. Po krótkim przystanku w cesarskim Wiedniu wyemigrowała do Australii, gdzie zarabiała na życie jako guwernantka i kelnerka, aż wreszcie otworzyła swój pierwszy salon piękności w Melbourne. W późniejszyc...

Na skraju osady żyje Helena – starsza kobieta, wokół której narosły legendy. Wierzy we wróżki i magię, a mieszkańcy pozwalają jej w tej wierze trwać... dla wspólnego dobra.Lona, Tony, Miśka, Dośka i Robert próbują wybić się ponad rutynę wsi, choć sami nie do końca wiedzą, dokąd chcą uciec. Wyruszają do lasu – tego samego, o którym krążą dziwne opowieści. Tam rzekomo mieszka Złoczyn, król węży, który zwodzi zagubionych. Ale przecież to tylko bajki, prawda? Decyzja pięciorga pr...

W tej historii sporo jest fikcji stworzonej na potrzeby powieści, ale ona wydarzyła się naprawdę. Gdzieś, komuś i dawno temu. Jest rok 1941. Niespełna szesnastoletnia Helena wraz z dwójką przyrodniego rodzeństwa zostaje zabrana z domu rodzinnego, rzekomo na badania. Rzeczywistość okazuje się jednak bardziej brutalna, ponieważ cała trójka trafia do ośrodka Lebensborn mieszczącego się na terenie zachodniej Polski. W ośrodku Helena zostaje pomocą kucharki, a jej młodsze ...

A collection of unconnected but all featuring the same protagonist, gentlemen amateur detective Slane. Sir Jasper Slane, wealthy clubman, and amateur detective, is always willing to help his fellow aristocrats in need. With the able assistance of Inspector Stimpson of Scotland Yard, he solves thefts, rescues kidnapped victims, foils blackmailers, and helps to restore fortunes. Because of his upper class morality, Slane is perhaps more diffident than some other Oppenheim her...

„The Box with Broken Seals” is a thrilling cat and mouse murder mystery following the narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. This skillfully written and an exciting espionage story of intrigue, unfolding in the Oppenheim’s best style. The reader will follow with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the „City of Boston,” accompanied by a dying man and a special nurse in the person of Katharine Beverley, a society girl who is un...

The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street, where the offices of Woolito, Limited, are situated. A textile business is the center of strange machinations – suicides, failures, conflagrations, disaster to various directors, finally a raid on the stock, and the president is a ruined man. In this story Mr. Oppenheim takes a vaca...

Mr. Hardross Courage is a wealthy young Englishman whose life has been carefree and uneventful. He plays cricket for his county, he attends to the management of his estates, he serves as a local magistrate. He has never taken any interest in a career of any sort. On a trip to London to participate in a cricket match, Hardross is confronted by a man who forces his way into his hotel room imploring him to hide him. His reason – „They want to kill me”. So begins a tale that is...

Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between Germany, Russia, and Austria. The English hope to split Russia away by holding the Czar to his previous public commitments, but they need proof of what was done to create the pressure. All the pressures that lead to WWI are there, but the intrigues and secret treaties create an interesting background to the twists and turns of the plot....

General, his companion pronounced, „you are getting fat. Too many cocktails.” General Besserley, late of the Secret Service at Washington and now a very popular member of Monaco society, glanced downwards at his slightly increasing outline. He was rather a fine figure of a man and his carriage was beyond reproach, but it was certainly true that there was sometimes a little difficulty about the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Kiedy po raz kolejny pomyślisz, jak bardzo coś spieprzyłeś, ta książka przypomni ci, że mogło być o wiele gorzej… W ciągu ostatnich siedemdziesięciu tysięcy lat, odkąd homo sapiens chodzi po Ziemi, przebyliśmy długą drogę. Sztuka, nauka, kultura, handel – w ewolucyjnym łańcuchu pokarmowym jesteśmy prawdziwymi zwycięzcami. Ale powiedzmy sobie szczerze, to wcale nie była bułka z masłem, a do tego czasami, zupełnie przypadkiem, udawało się nam coś naprawdę wybitni...

Scotland Yard unearths the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy, eccentric banker, the reason for a dead man in his bank, and the vanishing of the bank’s funds. The background shifts from the bank to the club, and the missing millionaire’s known habits give necessary leads to the unscrambling of the mystery. Oppenheim continues to hold up his end. An enjoyable read! E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British author who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. He styled himself ...

In an interesting precursor to the later „I Spy” television series, the novel follows the activities of a young British tennis professional, Mervyn Amory, who is spending the season in Monte Carlo. While traveling from Paris on Le Train Bleu, he meets an Italian secret agent who is carrying documents which show the treachery of the dictator Matorni. Matorni is a thinly disguised Mussolini. (The title of the novel bears no relation to the book). Interestingly, this novel was...

In this novel tells about Alexander, the head of a huge movement aimed at returning to Russia a more conservative government. And also about his beautiful spy love, Anna, who works against the gang of butchers for the Soviet chief.

A novel written in 1912. These are good Victorian or Edward tales about representatives of the English upper class who are engaged in uncovering crimes, espionage, good deeds and shrouded by secrets. Some of these stories Oppenheim continued to develop in full novels. Others are short master classes with sketches, character and description. Unlike many of his stories, the ending for a couple of them is more acute or sad than usual.

The story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on „false evidence,” of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and later his son falls in love with the daughter of the man whose false evidence led to his ruin.

Android jest systemem stworzonym dla urządzeń mobilnych. Pod jego kontrolą pracują smartfony, tablety, lodówki, telewizory i wszystko wskazuje na to, że internet rzeczy będzie również w dużej części androidowy. Wielu programistów widzi w tym niespotykane dotąd możliwości, jednak pisanie aplikacji dla Androida wcale nie jest łatwym zadaniem. Wielu programistów przekonało się, że sama umiejętność kodowania nie jest wystarczająca. Biegłe poruszanie si...

Chwyć za gryf Język obowiązujący w codziennym kontakcie z muzyką gitarową Rozwój siły palców i umiejętności jednolitej artykulacji Rozgrzewki oraz skale, arpeggia i akordy Seria ćwiczeń z pełnymi utworami i piosenkami Możliwości szlifowania techniki Doskonalenie warsztatu przy użyciu nagrań z płyty Wyślij na trening swoje palce Gra na gitarze ma wiele fantastycznych zalet. Pobudza kreatywność, jest ekspresyjna, inspirująca, a nawet terapeutyczna...

Do gabinetów lekarskich trafia coraz więcej osób, u których zdiagnozowano alzheimera, parkinsona, stwardnienie rozsiane czy choroby tarczycy. Schorzenia te uznaje się za dziedziczne i nieuleczalne, co stawia pacjentów w wyjątkowo trudnej sytuacji. Jednak dzięki tej książce dowiesz się, że tak naprawdę odpowiadają za nie bakterie, wirusy, grzyby, insekty i pasożyty w organizmie. To właśnie one powodują infekcje – jedną z przyczyn chorób przewlekłych. Dzięki tej książce dowiesz...

The young handsome Mayor of Mechester, Daniel Poynton is the owner of a very successful shoe manufacturer, the major employer in the city and the mayor will soon be a Lord Mayor. Never before interested in women, or even in social affairs, he is stricken by the beauty of The Lady Ursula Manningham and falls in love. As the novel develops, Poynton’s factory is threatened by foreign manufacturers who want to establish a cooperative monopoly with him. At the same time, Poynton...

Captain Jan Henderson master of the cargo ship Henrietta Anne trading between London and Holland is working with mysterious conspirators (Sir Gregory Fawsitt and Lady Judith Martellon) to smuggle goods from Holland to London. His deck boy, David, falls in love with Judy, a pretty dancer. When Anthony Loman, an haggard traveler, staggers up the stairs of the tenement house at Bunter’s Buildings, Judy listens while he is flung to his death. As Police Sergeant Sanders’ investi...

A mystery story that involves the revolution in Portugal. Arnold Chetwode never intended to become involved in international intrigue. Arnold, a gently born young man in impecunious circumstances, toils as a lowly, ill-paid clerk in the prosperous London firm run by Mr. Weatherley, he is industrious but common merchant. A surprising invitation puts him at the right time and place to be a witness to a public murder. His employer and employer’s family are involved in the afte...

In this remarkable 1927 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a great conference has been called in London to renegotiate the war debt. It is clear that Germany is suffering, and all of Europe is affected. The great Financier Felix Dukane is in London with his beautiful daughter Estelle. It is rumored that he stands ready to loan Germany One Billion Pounds if the conference is able to limit the total debt. The outcome of the conference hinges on military and industrial secrets. T...