Rupert Of Hentzau

by Anthony Hope

Overview

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels and although he wrote 32 volumes of fiction our memory of him rests almost entirely on two: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). After the success of the former he gave up his legal career to concentrate on writing but was never able to scale again the heights. On a publicity tour of the United States he was described as “a well-dressed Englishman with a hearty laugh, a soldierly attitude, a dry sense of humour, quiet, easy manners and an air of shrewdness.” He died in July 8th 1933.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780008417
Publisher:	Copyright Group
Publication date:	10/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	219
File size:	199 KB

About the Author

Anthony Hope (in full Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) was born in London and educated at Marlborough and at Balliol College, Oxford. He became a lawyer, and dabbled in Liberal politics, but the immediate success of ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’, his fourth work, turned him entirely to writing. This work and its sequel, ‘Rupert of Hentzau’, both describe the perilous adventures of the Englishman Rudolph Rassendyll in the mythical kingdom of Ruritania. Anthony Hope successfully published many other novels and plays. He was knighted in 1918 and died in 1933.

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Anthony Hope was born on February 9th 1863. A prolific writer, especially of adventure novels: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) is a superb example. But the sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898), continues the adventure brilliantly.