Anthony Hope: 156 books

A study of modern marriage as it exists in modern London life especially. Three couples are closely described, and the author writes in the most uncompromising English and discusses some of the most intricate problems of "double harness." Uncontrollable temper, increasing idealism, love...

This is the story of a King who is weak and sick. Many battles go on to either save or dethrone the king. After the end of these battles, everything comes at the right place. Thus, the Castle of Zenda becomes a witness to the great political tussle.     The original flavour of these classics...

This new story is in the author's most finished and delicate style. The gallant Captain is a French soldier of fortune, and the surprising adventures into which he is projected, by his choice of a night's lodging in the Castle of Fieramondi, form the basis of a characteristically ingenious and interesting tale.

Rupert of Hentzau is the dark sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Full of humor and swashbuckling feats of heroism, the tale is also a satire on the politics of 19th-century Europe.

“The stories are without exception bright, racy, readable, clever.” So writes the London Literary World in its review of this collection of tales, which includes the popular narrative, “The Wheel of Love.” As comedies these stories are filled with wit, ingenuity, and satire and while the plots are varied, each possesses a light romantic spirit.

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual. So much for common...

The plot of this 1894 novel is aptly conveyed by its subtitle, “Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace.”  When Gilbert Aycon travels to his estate in Normandy, he encounters a beautiful young singer, Marie Delhasse, and the adventure of a lifetime.

Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!'So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will...

"A Man of Mark" is, like "The Prisoner of Zenda," a story of adventure and intrigue, its scene laid in an imaginary South American republic, and told in a manner strongly suggestive of opera bouffe. The writer gives his fancy the freest of play, and his characters, despite their...

Ce roman est la suite du Prisonnier de Zenda. La fin du premier volume a fixé le sort du duc de Strelsau, du roi Rodolphe, de Rodolphe Rassendyll. Mais, qu'en est-il de Rupert de Hentzau, qu'est devenu Rodolphe Rassendyll après l'aventure qu'il a vécue? C'est ce que vous apprendrez en lisant ce passionnant second volume...