The king is poisoned and replaced by an imposter! You know the story because you've seen it everywhere from the movie Dave to the Robert A. Heinlein novel Double Star, but that plot started right here with the Anthony Hope classic, The Prisoner of...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933) was training to become a lawyer and barrister when he wrote his sixth novel, "The Prisoner of Zenda", in 1894. It took one month to finish the first draft, and it quickly achieved such great success that Hope...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (1863-1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although a prolific writer, he is remembered best for "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel, "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898)....
Life for the young, blue-blooded Rupert Rassendyll is a round of carefree entertainments. Meanwhile in the central European state of Ruretania things are not going well. Political intrigue threatens to usurp the soon to be crowned dissolute playboy, Princ...
'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with...