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Title: The Prisoner of Zenda (Zenda 1)
Author: Anthony Hope
Narrator: Stanley Green
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
"The Prisoner of Zenda" is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation, and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such, that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, who resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy, in effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum... Of course, complications along the way, plots and counter-plots will follow.
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Members Reviews:
A grand adventure
Where the Prince and the Pauper appeals to younger readers, this is a dashing adventure story for adults, with a similar (though believable) similarity of appearance / features.
What starts as two strangers, amazed to discover they look as alike as twins, evolves into one stepping up when the other is incapacitated, and from there things really get interesting.
A quick read, written a little more than 100 years ago, the English is easy and familiar, as opposed to reading a work in medieval English,or from a literary period where characters names were M. D______
Ultimately it is the challenges, and difficult decisions out hero Rudolf faces, and how he handles them, that made this a wonderful read. The lead character proved himself a hero, in a variety of ways.
Prisoner to Good Reading
"Rubert of Hentzau", the sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda", is actually the more exciting story of the two, and should rightly be called "The Queens Letter", though that would make a confusion with "The Queen's Necklace" by Dumas. Although the ending becomes clear well before the end, because its Victorian, it's masterfully done in its characters, action and development. And because it's slightly stilted Victorian writing, it takes a bit of getting used to. Don't let that put you off. Read though as a continuous novel, both stories are a rewarding read.
Swashbuckler of a romance...
Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance "The Prisoner of Zenda" makes the dramatic leap to graphic novel, courtesy of Campfire Classics, adapter Lloyd Wagner, and illustrator Lalit Sharma. This classic adventure story has mistaken identities, kidnappings, deception, midnight missions, castles, swordfights and a lovely princess, all in just 72 colorful pages.
The hero of the story is Rudolf Rassendyll, a red-headed Englishman and former soldier, who journeys to the Kingdom of Ruritania in Eastern Europe, to see his distant cousin Prince Rudolf become king. The night before the coronation, at the town of Zenda, the two Rudolfs meet, and find that they are identifical in appearence. When Prince Rudolf is too incapacitated by drink to make the ceremony the next morning, our Englishman is persuaded by the Prince's advisors to stand in, to prevent the evil Prince Black Michael from seizing the throne.
The English Rudolf undergoes the coronation and returns to Zenda, only to find the real king has been kidnapped by Black Michael and his vicious allies, and is held prisoner in the dreaded Castle of Zenda.
