Anthony Hope

This swashbuckling romance transports a droll young English gentleman from his comfortable life in London to a fast-moving adventure in a mythical country steeped in political intrigue....

Rudolf Rassendyll travels to the small kingdom of Ruritania for what should be a quiet holiday. But when the newly crowned king is drugged and kidnapped, Rudolf's uncanny resemblance to him pulls him into a dangerous plan.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London, and later trained as a lawyer and barrister. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career, he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time....

Rudolph Rassendyll, thanks to his bearing an uncanny likeness to his distant relative Crown Prince Rudolph of the fictional land of Ruritania, is forced to swap places with him in order to secure the throne from Black Michael the usurper....

Esta historia, trata de las aventuras de Rodolfo, que por su extraordinario parecido con el rey de Ruritania....

Anthony Hope's swashbuckling classic tale of adventure and romance: Ruritania, a beautiful kingdom in the mountains between Germany and Austria, is in the midst of a power struggle....

An incriminating love-letter from the Queen of Ruritania to Rudolph Rassendyll, the hero of The Prisoner of Zenda, is intercepted by the dastardly villain Rupert of Hentzau....

An Englishman travels to the small European state of Ruritania where he impersonates the ruler and falls in love with Princess Flavia....

The ultimate escapist adventure story, The Prisoner of Zenda transports the listener into a bygone era, awash with swashbuckling heroism, cunning plots and courtly love....

"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...

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 king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation...

The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after it was written....

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. When two people meet, when eyes glance and lock. And we often say something ‘clicks’; ‘it feels like I’ve known you forever’. Romance begins to brew and to blossom.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.