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What is a fortune worth when the wealth you hold today may belong to yesterday tomorrow?
In A Millionaire of Yesterday, E. Phillips Oppenheim puts sudden wealth at the heart of a story about money, status and risk. A fortune can arrive quickly and vanish just as fast. Having money offers no promise of safety, and ambition gives people reasons to reach for more.
This novel brings you into Oppenheim’s early world of secrets and social ambition. Its central question is what it means to possess wealth that may already belong to the past. Read for the pull of the plot, and for ideas of class and success that reflect its time.
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- The uncertainty of wealth Explore a story in which having a fortune does not mean being safe.
- Ambition under pressure Follow the tension between wanting more and fearing what there is to lose.
- Money, secrets and status Enter the mix of wealth and concealment that shapes Oppenheim’s early fiction.
- A world shaped by class Encounter manners and ideas of success that belong to the novel’s own age.
- The pleasure of plot Read for forward movement, uncertainty and the risks that gather around sudden wealth.
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Un millonario de ayer
by E. Phillips Oppenheim · 1900
Sudden wealth promises status, but a fragile fortune puts ambition and security at stake.
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A Millionaire of Yesterday is a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English writer who turned out popular fiction for more than forty years.
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Oppenheim wrote for a wide public
Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born in London in 1866 and worked in the family leather business while he began to write. He sold his stories steadily, and over his life he produced an enormous number of novels and tales. Few writers of his day were as productive, and readers across Britain and America knew his name.
He wrote for people who wanted to be entertained on a train, in an armchair or on a holiday. His books were serialised in magazines and then sold in cheap editions. That setting shaped his style. He kept chapters short and sentences clear, and he made sure each scene pushed the reader toward the next.
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Who wrote A Millionaire of Yesterday?
It was written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist who died in 1946. He was one of the most productive popular writers of his day, known for novels of society, money and intrigue.
What kind of book is A Millionaire of Yesterday?
It is a popular novel from the early part of Oppenheim's career. It belongs to the tradition of fast, readable fiction that deals with fortune, ambition and social position, written for a wide magazine and book audience.
Is A Millionaire of Yesterday hard to read?
No. Oppenheim wrote in clear, direct prose with short chapters and a brisk pace. The style itself is easy to follow and meant for relaxed reading.
The author
E. Phillips Oppenheim
1866–1946 · English thriller novelist
Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist, born in London in 1866. He lived in Leicester and later on Guernsey, where he died in 1946. He wrote novels and short stories, including The Yellow Crayon (1903), The Zeppelin’s Passenger (1918), and The Great Impersonation (1920).
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