The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope's 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. The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Anthony Hope


• The Prisoner of Zenda


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, Wesleyan University, and Dartmouth College. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the advisory boards of the Journal of Victorian Culture, Novel, and the Irish University Review. His academic publications include the monographs Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle (CUP, 1999), Literature, Technology and Modernity (CUP, 2004), Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (CUP, 2009), and The Demographic Imagination (CUP, 2015), and many articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture. He has also recently edited Emma Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel for the Oxford World's Classics.

Summary

Anthony Hope's 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. The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.

Additional text

A hugely enjoyable rip-roaring adventure of chivalry and romance.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Hope, Hope Anthony
• Assisted by: Nicholas Daly (Editor), Nicholas (Professor of Modern English and American Literature Daly (Editor), Daly Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780198841098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884109-8
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Adventure, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary