1895. Hope was a barrister who gave up the law after realizing success with his novel The Prisoner of Zenda. The book begins: Stephen! Stephen! Stephen! The impatient cry was heard through all the narrow gloomy street, where the old richly-carved house-fronts bowed to meet one another and left for the eye's comfort only a bare glimpse of blue. It was, men said, the oldest street in Strelsau, even as the sign of the Silver Ship was the oldest sign known to exist in the city. For when Aaron Lazarus the Jew came there, seventy years before, he had been the tenth man in unbroken line that took up the business; and now Stephen Nados, his apprentice and successor, was the eleventh. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Sir Charles Mallet says, in _Anthony Hope and His Books_, page 96:
"The public took to its heart another charming lady of the Elphberg stock, a sister of the wild King Rudolph.... Mr W.L. Courtney, an Oxford friend and philosopher, headed a long article in the Daily Telegraph with the title "Osra the Flirt," and it is to be feared that the title, though wanting in respect for Royal persons, was deserved." The book is a connected series of romantic or domestic short stories. Readers of Sir Anthony's other Ruritanian books who are expecting adventure are likely to be disappointed.
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"STEPHEN! Stephen! Stephen!" The impatient cry was heard through all the narrow gloomy street, where the old richly-carved house-fronts bowed to meet one another and left for the eye's comfort only a bare glimpse of blue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Princess Osra, Prince Rudolf, Count Nikolas, Bishop of Modenstein, Grand Duke, Miller of Hofbau, Prince Henry, Castle of Zenda, Count Sergius, Countess Hilda, King's Guard, Christian Hantz, King of Glottenberg, Prince Ludwig, Prince of Glottenberg, The Courtesy of Christian the Highwayman, Castle of Festenburg, Helen of Troy, Royal Arms, Signor Giraldo, Saint Peter New!
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"STEPHEN! Stephen! Stephen!" The impatient cry was heard through all the narrow gloomy street, where the old richly-carved house-fronts bowed to meet one another and left for the eye's comfort only a bare glimpse of blue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little gate, western gate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Princess Osra, Prince Rudolf, Count Nikolas, Bishop of Modenstein, Grand Duke, Miller of Hofbau, Prince Henry, Castle of Zenda, Count Sergius, Countess Hilda, King's Guard, Christian Hantz, King of Glottenberg, Prince Ludwig, Prince of Glottenberg, The Courtesy of Christian the Highwayman, Castle of Festenburg, Helen of Troy, Royal Arms, Signor Giraldo, Saint Peter New!
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- The Prisoner of Zenda (Peguin Readers, Level 5) by Hope in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Prisoner of Zenda (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Hope in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope in Front Matter
- Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope in Front Matter
- The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Hope in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Hope in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Sons of Fire: Volume 2 by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- London Pride or When The World Was Younger: Volume 2 by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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