Books by Anthony Hope

A rip-roaring adventure packed with political intrigue, nail-biting skirmishes and romance.

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Da Rudolf skal krones til konge af Ruritania, bliver han bortført af sin onde bror Prins Michael, som vil holde ham fanget på et gammelt slot i den lille by Zenda. For at forhindre Michael i at gøre krav på tronen indsættes en dobbeltgænger i al hemmelighed. Kongens fætter Rassendyll skal nu agere konge, indtil den rigtige Kong Rudolf kan blive befriet, men efterhånden lever Rassendyll sig lidt for godt ind i rollen som konge og forlovede til den smukke prinsesse Flavia.Den engelske forfatter sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, bedre kendt som Anthony Hope, (1863-1933) skrev både romaner og skuespil hovedsageligt inden for adventure-genren. Anthony Hope er bedst kendt for romanerne "Fangen på Zelda" (1894) og dens uafhængige efterfølger "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898)

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and inspired a new genre of Ruritanian romance, including the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon.

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania.

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