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The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda
Author
Anthony Hope
First published
1894
Subjects
Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, action & adventure...
Date read
Mar 2009

Synopsis

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.