Anthony Hope

El prisionero de Zenda es una novela privilegiada, pues pertenece a ese extraño y selecto club de los libros que nunca envejecen.Sus ingredientes eran y lo siguen siendo infalibles: amores imposibles, heroes galantes, villanos inteligentes, princesas hermosas, coronas en peligro, fieles servidores Todo ello, situado en el corazon de la Europa elegante de finales del siglo XIX: ese territorio mitico donde se cruzaban viajeros dandis realizando el Grand Tour, condesas misteriosas que tomaban las aguas en balnearios enclavados en magicas montañas, investigadores privados tras la huella del mal en ciudades envueltas en niebla, infieles esposas fugitivas con jovenes apuestos en el Orient Express, ladrones de guante blanco al acecho de las perlas de adineradas jovencitas que paseaban por Niza o leian a Mr. Barnabooth en la terraza de un hotel de Sorrento El prisionero de Zenda nacio tocada por los dioses y, abriendose paso entre grandes del genero, se convirtio en una de las novelas mas leidas, erigiendose ademas como pionera en la creacion de historias ambientadas en paises imaginarios.

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. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability.Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisioner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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.

Tras la muerte en duelo de su hermano, la joven baronesa Fastrade von der Warthe vuelve a casa para cuidar de su padre y de su tía. En la mansión se verá confrontada con el silencio, el tedio, el dolor y la rigidez moral, pero he aquí que aparece el barón Dietz von Egloff, un joven conocido en la región por su afición al juego y a la vida disipada. Egloff, al igual que los otros jóvenes aristócratas de la región, intenta encontrar su lugar en un mundo que dista mucho del de sus padres, que considera decadente. Una narrativa representativa de la Belle Époque, que se deja traslucir en la forma amanerada en que los personajes se comportan como víctimas de la ociosidad y el tedio. Pero la empresa de huir de algo que se desmorona resulta siempre tremendamente difícil.

El prisionero de Zenda es una novela privilegiada, pues pertenece a ese extraño y selecto club de los libros que nunca envejecen.Sus ingredientes eran y lo siguen siendo infalibles: amores imposibles, heroes galantes, villanos inteligentes, princesas hermosas, coronas en peligro, fieles servidores Todo ello, situado en el corazon de la Europa elegante de finales del siglo XIX: ese territorio mitico donde se cruzaban viajeros dandis realizando el Grand Tour, condesas misteriosas que tomaban las aguas en balnearios enclavados en magicas montañas, investigadores privados tras la huella del mal en ciudades envueltas en niebla, infieles esposas fugitivas con jovenes apuestos en el Orient Express, ladrones de guante blanco al acecho de las perlas de adineradas jovencitas que paseaban por Niza o leian a Mr. Barnabooth en la terraza de un hotel de Sorrento El prisionero de Zenda nacio tocada por los dioses y, abriendose paso entre grandes del genero, se convirtio en una de las novelas mas leidas, erigiendose ademas como pionera en la creacion de historias ambientadas en paises imaginarios.

Rudolph Rassendylls life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.

Rudolf Rassendyll, having heroically saved the kingdom of Ruritania and nobly given up the hand of the beautiful Princess Flavia, has returned to his normal life in England. But when, three years later, Flavia, now the unhappily married Queen of Ruritania, sends him a love letter, it is stolen by the exiled villain Rupert Hentzau. Rudolf's former adversary has been waiting for the chance to have his revenge, and this provides the perfect opportunity to stir up trouble.

"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 unreality, succeed in interesting us in their fortunes. The narrative has swiftness of action, diversity of incident, and cleverness in a hundred minor touches.

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, 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 an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.A sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, was published in 1898 and is included in some editions of The Prisoner of Zenda.The popularity of the novels inspired the Ruritanian romance genre of literature, film, and theatre that features stories set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, for example Graustark from the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, and the neighbouring countries of Syldavia and Borduria in the Tintin comics.

Rodolphe Rassendyll, un touriste anglais, arrive à Strelsau, capitale dun pays imaginaire dEurope Centrale, la Ruritanie. Il y rencontre un lointain cousin dont il est le parfait sosie, le prince hér

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Rudolf Rassendyll, a daring young Englishman looking for adventure, arrives in Ruritania for the new kings coronation. The two men meet by chance the day before and are shocked to find that they look exactly the same! A trick leaves Rudolf in the kings place while the king becomes the Prisoner of Zenda

Un collar valiosísimo, propiedad de una familia aristócrata da origen a una ingeniosa trama que se inicia con una osada invitación a dos jóvenes amigos por parte de una duquesa casada, en ausencia del marido; invitacion que se vera truculentamente alterada por el repentino regreso del esposo y por un misterioso intento de robo de la valiosa gema por parte de unos malhechores; todo ello mediante una trama llena de ingeniosas vueltas y revueltas, y cuyas convenciones victorianas resultan sublimadas por la sutileza analitica de la prosa de este gran novelista.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.