E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Fortunate Wayfarer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. He was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, and invented the „Rogue Male” school of adventure thrillers that was later exploited by John Buchan and Geoffrey Household. This 1927 old detective story by Oppenheim revisits the plot device of a young man who comes into a large fortune suddenly and explores the class differences between the lower middle, and the upper class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ktoczyta.pl
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788381483742
• Artikelnr.: 53683440

Autorenporträt

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were viewed as popular entertainments. He quickly found a successful formula and established his reputation. He described his method in 1922: "I create one more or less interesting personality, try to think of some dramatic situation in which he or she might be placed, and use that as the opening of a nebulous chain of events." He never used an outline: "My characters would resent it."A 1927 review in The New York Times said he "numbers his admirers in the hundreds of thousands and has one or more of his books on a prominent shelf in almost every home one enters".