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The Prisoner of Zenda
When the King of Ruritania is drugged before his coronation, an English tourist who happens to be his lookalike is persuaded to impersonate him.
"The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope is an adventure novel. When the King of Ruritania is drugged before his coronation, an English tourist who happens to be his lookalike is persuaded to impersonate him.
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“I wonder when in the world you’re going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother’s wife.
“My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!”
“You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you’ve done nothing but—”
“Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn’t need to do things.”
This remark of mine rather annoyed Rose, for everybody knows (and therefore there can be no harm in referring to the fact) that, pretty and accomplished as she herself is, her family is hardly of the same standing as the Rassendylls. Besides her attractions, she possessed a large fortune, and my brother Robert was wise enough not to mind about her ancestry. Ancestry is, in fact, a matter concerning which the next observation of Rose’s has some truth.
“Good families are generally worse than any others,” she said.
Upon this I stroked my hair: I knew quite well what she meant.
“I’m so glad Robert’s is black!” she cried.
At this moment Robert (who rises at seven and works before breakfast) came in. He glanced at his wife: her cheek was slightly flushed; he patted it caressingly.
“She objects to my doing nothing and having red hair,” said I, in an injured tone.
Contents
- 01Chapter 1 The Rassendylls—With a Word on the Elphbergs
- 02Chapter 2 Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hair
- 03Chapter 3 A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
- 04Chapter 4 The King Keeps His Appointment
- 05Chapter 5 The Adventures of an Understudy
- 06Chapter 6 The Secret of a Cellar
- 07Chapter 7 His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
- 08Chapter 8 A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother
- 09Chapter 9 A New Use for a Tea-table
- 10Chapter 10 A Great Chance for a Villain
- 11Chapter 11 Hunting a Very Big Boar
- 12Chapter 12 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook
- 13Chapter 13 An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder
- 14Chapter 14 A Night Outside the Castle
- 15Chapter 15 I Talk with a Tempter
- 16Chapter 16 A Desperate Plan
- 17Chapter 17 Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions
- 18Chapter 18 The Forcing of the Trap
- 19Chapter 19 Face to Face in the Forest
- 20Chapter 20 The Prisoner and the King
- 21Chapter 21 If love were all!
- 22Chapter 22 Present, Past—and Future?
About this edition
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 166 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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