Matthew Phipps Shiell, also known as M. P. Shiel, was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent.
The bizarre imagination and stylistic sorcery of Matthew Phipps Shiel have created several sleuths unique in the annals of criminal detection.The author's first published book introduced the mysterious Russian, Prince...
The first three Prince Zaleski stories had appeared in Shiel's first published work, Prince Zaleski (London: John Lane; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895). 1.Prince Zaleski "The Race of Orven""The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks""The S.S."
Prince Zaleski by Matthew Phipps Shiel.
His first novel was The Rajah's Sapphire (1896), based on a plot by William Thomas Stead, who probably hired Shiel to write the novel.
Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski--victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile ...
About Author:Matthew Phipps Shiel (his surname was originally spelled Shiell) (July 21, 1865 - February 17, 1947), was a prolific British writer of fantastic fiction, remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances.
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Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski--victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile ...
What then, my God, shall I do?." The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "last man" novels ever written.