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The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

Overview

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781241053628
Publisher: Primary Sources, Historical Collections
Publication date: 02/01/2011
Series: Primary Sources, Historical Collections
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range: 12 - 15 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Anthony Hope

Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, Wesleyan University, and Dartmouth College. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the advisory boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, and the Irish University Review. His academic publications include the monographs Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siecle (CUP, 1999), Literature, Technology and Modernity (CUP, 2004), Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (CUP, 2009), and The Demographic Imagination (CUP, 2015), and many articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture. He has also recently edited Emma Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel for the Oxford World's Classics.

Table of Contents

I. The Rassendylls—with a Word on the Elphbergs
II. Concerning the Colour of Men's Hair
III. A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
IV. The King Keeps His Appointment
V. The Adventures of an Understudy
VI. The Secret of a Cellar
VII. His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
VIII. A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother
IX. A New Use for a Tea Table
X. A Great Chance for a Villain
XI. Hunting a Very Big Boar
XII. I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook
XIII. An Improvement on Jacob's Ladder
XIV. A Night Outside the Castle
XV. I Talk With a Tempter
XVI. A Desperate Plan
XVII. Young Rupert's Midnight Diversions
XVIII. The Forcing of the Trap
XIX. Face to Face in the Forest
XX. The Prisoner and the King
XXI. If Love Were All!
XXII. Present, Past—and Future?
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