The prisoner of Zenda: being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman: Rupert of Hentzau: being the sequel

✍ Scribed by Anthony Hope

• Book ID: 100135838
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101175958

✦ Synopsis

Best known for his political fairy tale, The Prisoner of Zenda, which saw four major screen adaptations, including the acclaimed 1937 incarnation starring Ronald Colman, Anthony Hope was one of the few novelists to achieve wide popular and critical admiration during his lifetime. Regarded by many critics as the finest adventure story ever written -- and certainly one of the most popular -- The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyl, a dashing English gentleman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the ruler of the fictional kingdom of Ruritania. Rassendyl masquerades as the king in order to save the country from a treacherous plot and secures the release of the wronged prisoner. In the process he wins the heart of the beautiful princess Flavia, but ultimately surrenders the crown and the hand of his beloved princess to the rightful ruler.

Rupert of Hentzau, which ends in tragedy rather than triumph, is the darker, more problematic sequel to The...