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After Zenda by Spurling, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The small Central European kingdom of Ruritania was created on November 28th, 1893, when a young barrister/novelist called Anthony Hope Hawkins, walking back from winning a case in the Westminster County Court to his Temple chambers, suddenly thought of the story of The Prisoner of Zenda. A month later the book was written and, published in April 1894, was so successful that by July its author had decided to abandon the law and become a full-time writer. The sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, Hope’s only other excursion to Ruritania (apart from a volume of stories, set in an earlier period), though he wrote many other novels, was published in 1898.My own rediscovery of post-Nazi, post-communist Ruritania was equally sudden. It was set off in 1992 by reading obituaries of the Grand Duke Vladimir Romanov, putative heir to the throne of Russia, whose last Tsar, Nicholas II, began his unlucky reign in the year The Prisoner of Zenda was published. Was it possible that the hero of Hope’s story had an heir? Not, of course, if the sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, told the whole truth; not unless Sherlock Holmes, whose Memoirs were also published in that busy year 1894, came back from the Reichenbach Fal

Who reads After Zenda?

Author

Spurling, John

Published

1995

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction