Matthew Phipps Shiel: 7 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Last Miracle. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by M. P. (Matthew...

Prince Zaleski was written in the year 1895 by Matthew Phipps Shiel. This book is one of the most popular novels of Matthew Phipps Shiel, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

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.

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,...

A story of adventure in South Central Africa. An English scientist learns that the "White Queen" of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance.

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 from the rest of men! But during the time that what was called...

A story of adventure in South Central Africa. An English scientist learns that the "White Queen" of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance.