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...

Jedna z 10 najlepszych książek roku według magazynu "TIME". Nominowana do prestiżowej National Book Award "Wizyta" to mrożąca krew w żyłach, a zarazem wstrząsająco czuła powieść jednej z najciekawszych współczesnych autorek, której twórczość zachwyciła m.in. Ursulę Le Guin, Rebeccę Makkai i Lauren Groff. Powieść, trzymająca w niesłychanym napięciu od pierwszej aż do ostatniej strony, rozpoczyna się trzęsieniem ziemi: Molly, sama w domu z małymi dziećmi, słyszy w sąsie...

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...

W dalekiej Boliwii zamordowana została polska wolontariuszka Helena Kmieć. Na rocznicę jej tragicznej śmierci powstała pierwsza książka o tej niezwykłej młodej dziewczynie, która zapłaciła najwyższą cenę za życie w praktyce wartościami ewangelicznymi.Sam tytuł książki to słowa ks. bp. Jana Zająca, wujka Heleny. Mówi wiele o głębokim przekonaniu bliskich wolontariuszki o jej świętości. Historia Heleny Kmieć to świadectwo pięknego życia. Uśmiechnięta, rozśpiewana, życzliwa... W...

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...

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...

Matravers is „an Apostle of Aestheticism” with „fixed views of life, down to even it’s most trifling details.” „A poet, philosopher, and man of fashion” who has „no intimate friends.” He writes for the London papers and reviews. One evening he is taken to the theater by a friend to see a „Norwegian” play by Istein, which he savages in his review. However the actress who plays the lead, Berenice, is brilliant, and is the same woman with whom he has been exchanging coy glance...

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 World War I tale of espionage in a fictional „backwater” area in England with no apparent military value called Dreymarsh. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. This discovery triggers a range of events and introduces a myriad of characters which all make for a rather delightful mystery. Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. He is considered one ...

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the „rogue male” school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of all sorts. In „The Golden Beast”, a woman curses her lover’s father, a baron, who had her gamekeeper father hanged. Years afterward, three of the baron’s descendants disappear in a manner that baffles Scotland Yard, appearing they were the victims of that ancient curse. Written in 1925, with...

Glenlitten Manor is the home of Andrew, Marquis Glenlitten, and his lovely, tiny, vivacious French wife, Felice. On the night of a small game hunt, the unsavory Baron de Bresset is murdered and the priceless Glenlitten diamond is stolen. Who stole the necklace and killed de Bresset? The subplot around the origins of Felice, who was orphaned in a French chateau at a very young age, form an interesting side story. Suspects include Sir Richard Cotton, the famous London crimina...

Believe it or not, here is an Oppenheim story without a single scene laid in Monte Carlo. And high time, too, for that lode, profitable as it no doubt has been, has shown signs, of petering out. The entire action of this novel takes place in England, and most of the characters, with the exception of a few detectives, belong to the upper classes. Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction incl...

„The Exploits of Pudgy Pete” story was written in 1927 by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Peter Bragg and his tormentor from school days George Angus, join forces to run a modern „Enguiry Agency” in London. The cases which come to them are complex, romantic, dangerous, humorous, and clever. Together the two solve social and criminal problems, and find their romantic mates. These short story collection by Mr. Oppenheim containing also: „Drama in the Dolls’ House”, „A Comedy in Divorc...

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...

Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.

This early work from the „prince of storytellers” E. Phillips Oppenheim published as a novel in 1897. Mr. Norman Scott is a young, hardworking, distinguished physician with a busy practice in London. He is called to visit a patient, Mr. Humphrey Deignton, who suffers from gout and who is murdered later. Dr. Scott is suspected. Two years later, we meet Mr. John Martin, postmaster and chemist in Market Deignton. A lonely, bitter, impoverished man. He is living near the home o...

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British writer known for his thriller novels. He is credited with writing over 100 novels including suspense, international intrigue, romance, parables, and comedies. His protagonists are known for their love of luxury, gourmet meals, and their enjoyment of criminal activities. „The Pawns Count” is a novel during World War I and intrigue. German, Japanese, British and Americans play roles in this novel. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a n...

Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in mystery and nobody seems to know anything about him other than that he is wealthy? Strange things continue to happen... „The New Tenant” is a devious mystery from the „the prince of storytellers” Phillips Oppenheim who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. Very much in the gen...

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.

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...