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The prisoner of zenda by anthony hope for free#

Pascal, The California Campaigns of the U.S. Read The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope for free on hoopla. He falls asleep under a tree and is discovered by the king and his entourage who are. On a visit to a tiny East European principality, he decides to take a walk through a dense forest. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. By: Anthony Hope (1863-1933) There's a handsome young man about town in London, whose unusual good looks hint about a scandalous ancestry. The King is rescued and is restored to his throne, but the lovers, in duty bound, must part. Anthony Hopes The Prisoner Of Zenda:, The Schrodinger SolutionT. Anthony Hopes swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. He determines to rescue the king and leads an attempt to enter the castle of Zenda. Rassendyll falls in love with Princess Flavia, the King's betrothed, but cannot tell her the truth.

There is danger to a famous personage (in this case, the King of Ruritania) and there just happens to be a distant cousin who looks exactly like him on the spot who can fill in and help out. There are complications, plots, and counter-plots, among them the schemes of Michael's mistress, Antoinette de Mauban, and those of his dashing but villainous henchman Count Rupert of Hentzau. The Prisoner of Zenda is a fun little tale of adventure and derring-do written at the turn of the century (the 19th century, that is) by Anthony Hope. The unconscious king is abducted and imprisoned in a castle in the small town of Zenda. In a desperate attempt to deny Michael the excuse to claim the throne, Colonel Sapt and Fritz von Tarlenheim, attendants of the King, persuade his distant cousin Rudolf Rassendyll, an English visitor, to impersonate the King at the coronation. On the eve of the coronation of King Rudolf of Ruritania, his brother, Prince Michael, has him drugged. An English gentleman on holiday, who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. Compass Classic Readers Level 4Anthony Hopes swashbuckling. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope, John Thomas, Tom McNeely. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony.