Edward Phillips Oppenheim

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (born October 22, 1866 in London , † February 3, 1946 in Saint Peter Port , Guernsey ) was an English writer.

Life

Oppenheim was the son of a businessman who wanted his son to be his successor. Oppenheim felt completely unsuitable for this and became a freelancer for various regional newspapers while still at school. At the age of 21 he made his debut with great success in 1887 with his novel Expiation .

reception

Oppenheim was the first writer of the rogue male thriller , which was later continued - also successfully - by colleagues like John Buchan and Geoffrey Household . His literary work includes over 150 novels and spans an arc from crime and spy novels , comedies , satires , parables to development novels . His most famous novel The great impersonation was filmed three times.

Oppenheim is considered to be one of the first authors of espionage novels. In addition to his own name, Oppenheim published under several pseudonyms , u. a. Anthony Partridge. He liked to call himself Prince of Storytellers and with this designation he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine on September 12, 1927 .

Works (selection)

under the name Edward Phillips Oppenheim

  • Expiation. A novel of England and our Canadian Dominion . Ward Lock, London 1913 (reprint of the London 1886 edition).
  • Light Beyond . 1928 (German speculators ).
  • Murder at Monte Carlo . 1933.
  • The pool of memory . Little, Boston, Mass. 1941 ( autobiography ).
  • Stoles idols . 1925.
  • The wrath to come . 1924.

under the name Anthony Partridge

  • The Court of St. Simon . 1912.
  • The distributors . 1909.
  • False evidence . 1896.
  • Golden web . 1909.
  • Kingdom of earth . 1909
  • The mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown . 1896.
  • Passers by . 1910.
  • The wooing of fortune . 1896.
  • The world's greatest snare . 1896.

Film adaptations

literature

  • Arnold Armin u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , pp. 271-272.
  • Robert Standish: Prince of Storytellers. The life of E. Phillipps Oppenheim . Davies Publ., London 1957.

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personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Edward Phillips
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Partridge, Anthony (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1946
Place of death Saint Peter Port , Guernsey