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The Great Impersonation

Autor E. Phillips Oppenheim
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2006
When a German spy meets an English lookalike, he devises a plan to travel to London, assume his identity, and gather intel for his government. The Englishman's new persona catches several people off guard including his wife. While living in East Africa, Sir Everard Dominey encounters a man named Leopold von Ragastein. He's a native German who can easily pass as Sir. Everard's doppelgänger. Leopold isn't just a friendly host, he's a spy for the German government. When Sir. Everard returns to London, he is confronted by his wife, Lady Rosamund, with a serious accusation. Is this the real Sir Everard or has Leopold von Ragastein taken his place? The Great Impersonation features many of E. Phillips Oppenheim's most notable themes. It's a murder mystery, a case of mistaken identity and a political thriller. The author delivers a compelling story that ends with a timeless and unexpected twist. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Great Impersonation is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781406801507
ISBN-10: 140680150X
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Echo Library

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The great 'double man' spy story that sold a million copies
While in East Africa, by an extraordinary coincidence, Sir Everard Dominey stumbles upon the camp of his German doppelganger Baron Leopold von Ragastein. When the disgraced and penniless aristocrat returns to England in 1913, he appears to want to do nothing more than restore his family name and cure his wife, whom he had once driven to madness. Is the man who has returned really Sir Dominey, or is it von Ragastein who has stolen Sir Dominey's identity after conspiring to murder him in Africa – all in order to become a sleeper agent to spy on British establishment?
Oppenheim's The Great Impersonation was a Top-10 bestseller in the US and sold over a million copies in 1920 alone. The Guardian included the novel on its '1000 Novels Everyone Must Read'list in 2009 and it has been adapted into three feature films.
"Escapism on a grand scale" -- David Lehman
"Grandly scaled old-school espionage" – Kirkus Reviews

Notă biografică

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a bestselling English novelist. Born in London, he attended London Grammar School until financial hardship forced his family to withdraw him in 1883. For the next two decades, he worked for his father¿s business as a leather merchant, but pursued a career as a writer on the side. With help from his father, he published his first novel, Expiation, in 1887, launching a career that would see him write well over one hundred works of fiction. In 1892, Oppenheim married Elise Clara Hopkins, with whom he raised a daughter. During the Great War, Oppenheim wrote propagandist fiction while working for the Ministry of Information. As he grew older, he began dictating his novels to a secretary, at one point managing to compose seven books in a single year. With the success of such novels as The Great Impersonation (1920), Oppenheim was able to purchase a villa in France, a house on the island of Guernsey, and a yacht. Unable to stay in Guernsey during the Second World War, he managed to return before his death in 1946 at the age of 79.