Matthew Phipps Shiel eBooks
eBooks di Matthew Phipps Shiel editi da Steven Vey
Prince Zaleski. E-book. Formato EPUB Matthew Phipps Shiel - Steven Vey, 2017 -
The character of Prince Zaleski is a rather eccentric one. An exiled Russian nobleman, he lives in an abandoned abbey with his gigantic African servant Ham. His regular pursuits involve reading, smoking opium and cannabis, and lounging amongst his odd collection of antiquities, which includes an Egyptian sarcophagus complete with original mummified occupant.
The Lord of the Sea. E-book. Formato EPUB Matthew Phipps Shiel - Steven Vey, 2017 -
Matthew Phipps Shiell, also known as M. P. Shiel, was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel.
The Purple Cloud . E-book. Formato EPUB Matthew Phipps Shiel - Steven Vey, 2017 -
Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth.