226 pages
English language
Published 1894 by Henry Holt.
The prisoner of Zenda
being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman
by Anthony Hope
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An adventure novel, originally published in 1894, set in the fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania. An English tourist is persuaded to impersonate the new king after he is abducted before he can be crowned. This act draws upon him the wrath of the Prince who has had the king abducted and his partner in crime the villainous Rupert of Hentzau.