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The Zeppelin Passenger

E. Oppenheim

The Zeppelin Passenger

Original publication
1918
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
389
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Adventure, Crime and Thriller
Translated from
English

Book summary

A spy novel. During the First World War, in a small town on the Norfolk coast of England, a German Zeppelin loses its observation car in the night. The next day a stranger enters the home of Philippa, Lady Cranston: he brings news of her brother, a prisoner in Germany, whom he has helped. But he serves the enemy, and he asks to live in the town under a false name. Torn between duty to her country, love for her brother and her attraction to this man, Philippa must choose. An elegant suspense story woven with a love story.

The plot

A stranger from a zeppelin. In the middle of the war, a zeppelin, a huge German airship, flies over the English coast. In the morning, its small cabin is found in a field, empty.

The world of the book

In England, facing Germany. The book is set during the First World War, in a small town in Norfolk, on the east coast of England. Facing it, on the other side of the sea, lies Germany.

The author

E. Phillips Oppenheim 1866 – 1946. At 17, he joins his father’s leather business and writes his novels on the side. Around 1900, a rich New York leather merchant, a great reader of his books, buys the firm. The…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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