The prisoner of Zenda
The prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
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"The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope is an adventure novel published in 1894. When the King of Ruritania is drugged before his coronation, an English tourist who happens to be his lookalike is persuaded to impersonate him. What begins as a temporary political solution becomes dangerous when the king is kidnapped. The Englishman must maintain his royal disguise while navigating palace intrigue, assassination attempts, and forbidden love with Princess Flavia—all while trying to rescue the real king from his captors. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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- 1THE PRISONER OF ZENDA1,786 chars
- 2CHAPTER 1 The Rassendylls—With a Word on the Elphbergs11,903 chars
- 3CHAPTER 2 Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hair12,830 chars
- 4CHAPTER 3 A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative14,982 chars
- 5CHAPTER 4 The King Keeps His Appointment11,219 chars
- 6CHAPTER 5 The Adventures of an Understudy13,452 chars
- 7CHAPTER 6 The Secret of a Cellar11,979 chars
- 8CHAPTER 7 His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau11,893 chars
- 9CHAPTER 8 A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother14,324 chars
- 10CHAPTER 9 A New Use for a Tea-table14,213 chars
- 11CHAPTER 10 A Great Chance for a Villain13,211 chars
- 12CHAPTER 11 Hunting a Very Big Boar13,890 chars
- 13CHAPTER 12 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook13,036 chars
- 14CHAPTER 13 An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder13,656 chars
- 15CHAPTER 14 A Night Outside the Castle12,845 chars
- 16CHAPTER 15 I Talk with a Tempter12,544 chars
- 17CHAPTER 16 A Desperate Plan13,261 chars
- 18CHAPTER 17 Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions12,457 chars
- 19CHAPTER 18 The Forcing of the Trap11,488 chars
- 20CHAPTER 19 Face to Face in the Forest12,036 chars
- 21CHAPTER 20 The Prisoner and the King14,837 chars
- 22CHAPTER 21 If love were all!12,858 chars
- 23CHAPTER 22 Present, Past—and Future?13,111 chars