Matorni's Vineyard
This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946)
Book Details
| Title: | Matorni's Vineyard | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1928 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | McClelland and Stewart | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, mystery | ||||||||||
| Description: | Written in 1928, but set in 1940, Oppenheim is exercising his well known predictive tendencies about the conflict between Fascist Italy and Republican France. 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. Amory is the nephew of the British Minister of War, and falls in love with the young and beautiful Italian American Rosetta Comtessa di Maureatti. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 135 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 318  |
Author Bio for Oppenheim, E. Phillips
E. Phillips Oppenheim, in full Edward Phillips Oppenheim (born Oct. 22, 1866, London, Eng.—died Feb. 3, 1946, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, U.K.), internationally popular British author of novels and short stories dealing with international espionage and intrigue.
After leaving school at age 17 to help in his father's leather business, Oppenheim wrote in his spare time. His first novel, Expiation (1887), and subsequent thrillers caught the fancy of a wealthy New York businessman who bought out the leather business at the turn of the century and made Oppenheim a high-salaried director. He was thus freed to devote the major part of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, totaling more than 150, were peopled with sophisticated heroes, adventurous spies, and dashing noblemen. Among his well-known works are The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920).--Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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