The Prisoner of Zenda
Author | : Anthony Hope |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : Anthony Hope |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : Anthony Hope |
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Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.
Author | : Anthony Hope |
Publisher | : G.N. Morang |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Joel Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765340122 |
Kethol is an adventurer with an easy smile, a man who is quick with a quip and quicker with a sword. His partner Pirojil's ugly looks deceive people into thinking he's stupid to their sorrow in the third rollicking Guardians of the Flame book.
Author | : Anthony Hope |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2019-06-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The Prisoner of Zenda is a dystopian adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.
Author | : Anthony Hope |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : British |
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Rudolf Rassendyll is abruptly transported from his comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolph Elphberg, who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Streslau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. In his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, he endures a trial of strength and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia.
Author | : Anthony Hope |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Author | : Anthony Hope |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849647927 |
A glorious story, which cannot be too warmly recommended to all who love a tale that stirs the blood. Perhaps not the least among its many good qualities is the fact that its chivalry is of the nineteenth, not of the sixteenth century; that it is a tale of brave men and true, and of a fair woman of to-day. The Englishman who saves the king … is as interesting a knight as was Bayard…. The story holds the reader’s attention from first to last.
Author | : Anthony Hope |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2007-11-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780194791274 |
Suitable for younger learners Word count 10,710 Bestseller
Author | : Nicholas Daly |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
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ISBN | : 0198836600 |
This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.