The Prisoner of Zenza
Anthony Hope
- This
- adventure
- novel
- tells
- the
- story
- of
- Rudolf
- Rassendyll,
- younger
- brother
- of
- the
- Earl
- of
- Burlesdon
- and
- a
- distant
- cousin
- of
- Rudolf
- V,
- the
- new
- King
- of
- Ruritania.
- King
- Rudolf
- is
- a
- hard-drinking,
- feckless
- playboy,
- unpopular
- with
- the
- common
- people,
- but
- supported
- by
- the
- aristocracy.
- When
- Rudolf
- is
- abducted
- and
- imprisoned
- on
- the
- order
- of
- the
- Duke
- of
- Streslau,
- Rassendyll
- has
- to
- impersonate
- the
- King
- at
- his
- coronation.
- There
- are
- various
- plots
- and
- counter-plots,
- with
- the
- schemings
- of
- the
- Duke's
- mistress
- Antoinette
- de
- Mauban,
- and
- of
- the
- villainous
- henchman
- Rupert
- of
- Hentzau,
- complicated
- by
- Rassendyll's
- romance
- with
- Princess
- Flavia,
- the
- King's betrothed.
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