| Rupert of Hentzau . By: Anthony Hope. and ill. Charles Dana Gibson.( NOVEL ) Contributor(s): Gibson, Charles Dana (Author), Hope, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1975649516 ISBN-13: 9781975649517 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 8" W x 10" (0.68 lbs) 148 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898.The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from The Prisoner of Zenda. The frame implies that the events related in both books took place in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania. Most of the same characters recur: Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and look alike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier; Colonel Sapt, the King's Bodyguard; Lieutenant von Bernenstein, the loyal soldier. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll. The letter is carried by von Tarlenheim and his servant Bauer to be delivered by hand, but Fritz is betrayed by Bauer and It is stolen by the exiled Rupert of Hentzau and his loyal cousin the Count of Luzau-Rischenheim. Hentzau sees in it a chance to return to favour by informing the pathologically jealous and paranoid King. |