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The Prisoner of Zenda
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA was published in 1894. Its hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, an indolent young Englishman, decides to visit the kingdom of Ruritania to witness the coronation of its new king.

He discovers the crown prince is nearly his exact double. On coronation day, the king is taken prisoner by his evil brother, Ruppert. Rudolf Rassendyll is suddenly compelled to impersonate the monarch.

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The Prisoner of Zenda
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA was published in 1894. Its hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, an indolent young Englishman, decides to visit the kingdom of Ruritania to witness the coronation of its new king.

He discovers the crown prince is nearly his exact double. On coronation day, the king is taken prisoner by his evil brother, Ruppert. Rudolf Rassendyll is suddenly compelled to impersonate the monarch.

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The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope

Overview

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA was published in 1894. Its hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, an indolent young Englishman, decides to visit the kingdom of Ruritania to witness the coronation of its new king.

He discovers the crown prince is nearly his exact double. On coronation day, the king is taken prisoner by his evil brother, Ruppert. Rudolf Rassendyll is suddenly compelled to impersonate the monarch.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781497512177
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Pages: 70
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.14(d)
Age Range: 12 - 15 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was an English novelist, best remembered for his adventure novels "The Prisoner of Zenda" and its sequel, "Rupert of Hentzau".

Henry Carl Keifer was a prolific illustrator whose earliest published work appears to have been an adaptation of Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s Story of a Bad Boy in 1928 and he illustrated more than sixty different comic series between 1935 and 1955. He was best known for Wambi the Jungle Boy by Fiction House - 1940-1948. He became involved with Classics Illustrated in the early 1940s and his work is both distinctive and stimulating. There are many examples of his work throughout the CI series.

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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