The Prisoner of Zenda: An Englishman on the Throne of Ruritania
Anthony Hope
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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An idle English gentleman travels to a small central European kingdom to watch a coronation, meets the king in the forest the day before and turns out to be his double - and when the king is drugged, the coronation cannot be postponed. Hope wrote it in a month, invented the whole genre of Ruritanian romance, and gave the language a word for it. Fifty-eight plates of ships, campfires, glaciers and far harbours, among them Winslow Homer and Raden Saleh, carry the wandering, out-of-place feeling at the heart of the tale.
An idle English gentleman travels to a small central European kingdom to watch a coronation, meets the king in the forest the day before and turns out to be his double - and when the king is drugged, the coronation cannot be postponed. Hope wrote it in a month, invented the whole genre of Ruritan...
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Anthony Hope (1863-1933) was the pen name of Anthony Hope Hawkins, an English novelist and barrister born in London. He gave up a promising legal practice after The Prisoner of Zenda made his name, and was knighted for his propaganda work in the First World War. His works include The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau, The Dolly Dialogues, and Tales of Two People.
Anthony Hope (1863-1933) was the pen name of Anthony Hope Hawkins, an English novelist and barrister born in London. He gave up a promising legal practice after The Prisoner of Zenda made his name, and was knighted for his propaganda work in the First World War. His works include The Prisoner of ...
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