Ruritania Books In Order
- The Heart of Princess Osra (1896)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
- Rupert of Hentzau (1898)
Novels
- A Man of Mark (1890)
- Father Stafford (1891)
- Half a Hero (1893)
- The Dolly Dialogues (1894)
- The God in the Car (1894)
- The Indiscretion of the Duchess (1894)
- The Chronicles of Count Antonio (1895)
- Frivolous Cupid (1895)
- The Wheel of Love (1895)
- The Curate of Poltons (1896)
- The Decree of Duke Deodonato (1896)
- The Lady of the Pool (1896)
- Phroso (1897)
- Simon Dale (1897)
- A Cut and a Kiss (1899)
- The King’s Mirror (1899)
- Captain Dieppe (1900)
- Quisante (1900)
- The Intrusions of Peggy (1902)
- Tristram of Blent (1902)
- Double Harness (1904)
- A Servant of the Public (1905)
- Sophy of Kravonia (1906)
- Helena’s Path (1907)
- Tales of Two People (1907)
- The Great Miss Driver (1908)
- Dialogue (1909)
- Mrs. Maxon Protests (1910)
- Second String (1910)
- The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard (1911)
- A Young Man’s Year (1915)
- Beaumaroy Home from the Wars (1919)
- Lucinda (1920)
- The Secret of the Tower (2004)
Omnibus
- Comedies of Courtship (1896)
- Tarzan of the Apes / Prisoner of Zenda (2006)
Plays
- Pilkerton’s Peerage (1908)
- The Adventure of Lady Ursula (1910)
Non fiction
- The New (German) Testament (1914)
- Militarism (1915)
- Why Italy Is with the Allies (1917)
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Anthony Hope Books Overview
The Heart of Princess Osra
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.
The Prisoner of Zenda
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Rupert of Hentzau
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
A Man of Mark
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
Father Stafford
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
Half a Hero
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
The Dolly Dialogues
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863-1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well-known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisante 1900.
The Indiscretion of the Duchess
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
The Chronicles of Count Antonio
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Frivolous Cupid
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
The Wheel of Love
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The Curate of Poltons
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The Decree of Duke Deodonato
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The Lady of the Pool
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Phroso
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Simon Dale
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXL The Strange Conjuncture of Two Gentlemen I Have heard it said that King Charles laughed moTst heartily when he heard how a certain gentleman had tricked M. de Perrencourt and carried off from his clutches the lady who should have gone to prepare for the Duchess of York’s visit to the Court of Versailles. ‘ This Uriah will not be set in the forefront of the battle,’ said he, ‘ and therefore David can’t have his way.’ He would have laughed, I think, even although my action had thwarted his own schemes, but the truth is that he had so wrought on that same devotion to her religion which, according to Mistress Nell, inspired Mile, de Qu rouaille, that by the time the news came from Calais he had little doubt of success for himself although his friend M. de Perrencourt had been baffled. He had made his treaty, he had got his money, and the lady, if she would not stay, yet promised to return. The King then was well content, and found perhaps some sly satisfaction in the defeat of the great Prince whose majesty and dignity made any reverse which befell him an amuseme*nt to less potent persons. In any case the King laughed, then grew grave for a moment while he declared that his best efforts should not be wanting to reclaim Mistress Quinton to a sense of her duty, and then laughed again. Yet he set about reclaiming her, although with no great energy or fierceness ; and when he heard that Monmouth had otherviews of the lady’s duty, he shrugged his shoulders, saying, ‘ Nay, if there be two Davids, I’ll wager a crown on Uriah.’ It is easy to follow a man to the door of a house, but if the door be shut after him and the pursuer not invited to enter, he can but stay outside. So it fell out with me, and being outside I did not know what passed within nor how my Lord Carford far…
The King’s Mirror
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
Captain Dieppe
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
Quisante
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The Intrusions of Peggy
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Tristram of Blent
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899, and Quisant 1900.
Double Harness
1904. Hope was a barrister who gave up the law after realizing success with his novel The Prisoner of Zenda. The book begins: The house a large, plain, white building with non architectural pretensions stood on a high swell of the downs and looked across the valley in which Milldean village lay, and thence over rolling stretches of close turf, till the prospect ended in the gleam of waves and the silver grey mist that lay over the sea. It was a fine, open, free view. The air was fresh, with a touch of salt in it, and made the heat of the sun more than endurable even welcome and nourishing. Tom Courtland, raising himself from the grass and sitting up straight, gave utterance to what his surroundings declared to be a very natural exclamation: What a bore to leave this and go back to town! See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Sophy of Kravonia
A young, beautiful maidservant, Sophy Grouch, born into an unassuming family, spreads her wings and embarks on a life changing journey, first to Paris and then to a Balkan principality. This poignant tale, set in the nineteenth century, is enriched with history and romance and tells of the love, courage and vivacity that stirred ordinary Sophy from her roots and transformed her into Sophy of Kravonia.
Helena’s Path
The dashing and adventurous Lord Lynborough decides to give up his post in the Grenadier Guards in order to write his autobiography. And so he travels to the magnificent castle at Scarsmoor to take up residence. But little does he realise that trouble is not far away. This trouble comes in the shape of the beautiful Helena Vittoria Maria Antonia, Marchesa di San Servolo. When Lynborough learns that the volatile but charming Helena has closed his Beach Path, he is determined to retain his right of way. Passions flare as the tension between the two surly young rivals become all too apparent and Lord Lynborough and the Marchesa engage in a heated battle for ‘Helena’s Path‘.
Tales of Two People
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The Great Miss Driver
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Mrs. Maxon Protests
1910. Hope was a barrister who gave up the law after the success of his novel The Prisoner of Zenda. The book begins: Inkpat! She shot out the word in a bitter playfulness, making it serve for the climax of her complaints. Hobart Gaynor repeated the world if it could be called a word after his companion in an interrogative tone. Yes, just hopeless inkpat, and there’s an end of it! Mrs. Maxon leaned back as far as the unaccommodating angles of the office chair allowed, looking at her friend and counselor with a faint yet rather mischievous smile on her pretty face. In the solicitor’s big, high, bare room she seemed both small and very dainty. Her voice had trembled a little, but she made a brave effort at gayety as she explained her cryptic word. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Second String
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE POTENT VOICE ATER anxious consultation at Halton it had been decided that Harry Belfield was justified in adopting a political career and treating the profession of the Bar, to which he had been called, as nominal. The prospects of an opening and an opening in his native Division were rosy. His personal qualifications admitted of no dispute, his social standing was all that could be desired. The money was the only difficulty. Mr. Belfield’s income, though still large, was not quite what it had been; he was barely rich enough to support his son in what is still, in spite of all that has been done in the cause of electoral purity, a costly career. However, the old folk exercised economies, Harry promised them, and it was agreed that the thing could be managed. It was, perhaps, at the back of the father’s mind that for a young man of his son’s attractions there was one obvious way of increasing his income quite obvious and quite proper for the future owner of Halton Park. For the moment political affairs were fairly quiet next year it would be different and Harry, ostensibly engaged on a course of historical and socio logical reading, spent his time pleasantly between Meri ton and his rooms in Jermyn Street. He had access to much society of one kind and another, and was universally popular; his frank delight in pleasing people made him pleasant to them. With women especially he was a great favourite, not for his looks only, though they were a passport to open the door of any drawing room, but more because they felt that he was a man who appreciated them, valued them, needed them, to whom they were a very big and precious part of life. He had not a shred of that indifference that independence of them which is the worst offence in women’s eye…
A Young Man’s Year
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Lucinda
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The Secret of the Tower
Amongst other various, and no doubt useful, functions, Miss Delia Wall performed that of gossip and news agent general to the village of Inkston. A hard featured, swarthy spinster of forty, with a roving, inquisitive, yet not unkindly eye, she perambulated or rather percycled the district, taking stock of every incident. Not a cat could kitten or a dog have the mange without her privity; critics of her mental activity went near to insinuating connivance. Naturally, therefore, she was well acquainted with the new development at Tower Cottage, although the isolated position of that dwelling made thorough observation piquantly difficult. She laid her information before an attentive, if not very respectful, audience gathered round the tea table at Old Place, the Naylors’ handsome house on the outskirts of Sprotsfield and on the far side of the heath from Inkston. She was enjoying herself, although she was, as usual, a trifle distrustful of the quality of Mr. Naylor’s smile; it smacked of the satiric. ‘He looks at you as if you were a specimen,’ she had once been heard to complain; and, when she said ‘specimen,’ it was obviously beetles that she had in mind. ‘Everybody knows old Mr. Saffron by sight, I mean and the woman who does for him,’ she said. ‘There’s never been anything remarkable about them…
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Comedies of Courtship
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, 1863 1933 was a British novelist and playwright best remembered today for his short novel The Prisoner of Zenda 1894, a prequel The Heart of Princess Osra a collection of short stories 1896, and a sequel Rupert of Hentzau 1898. These works were all set in the contemporaneous fictional kingdom of Ruritania. His first novel was A Man of Mark 1890, and one of his most well known works during his lifetime was The Dolly Dialogues 1894, published in the Westminster Gazette. He started writing full time after Zenda’s success, completing many other novels and plays, including English Nell based on the life of actress Nell Gwyn, and Sophy of Kravonia 1906, in a similar vein as the Zenda story. He was knighted in recognition of his contribution to British propaganda efforts during World War I. He also published an autobiographical book, Memories and Notes, in 1927. His other works include: Father Stafford 1891, Half a Hero 1893, The Indiscretion of the Duchess 1894, Frivolous Cupid 1895, The King’s Mirror 1899 and Quisant 1900.
Tarzan of the Apes / Prisoner of Zenda
A 2 in 1 volume of adventure The first adventure tells of the ape man Tarzan and how he learns to survive in the jungle until his paradise is invaded…
A perilous impersonation, a forbidden romance, a rescue, and a battle to the death are all part of the second adventure.
The Adventure of Lady Ursula
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