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"A Change of Air," while containing much of its humour and snap, furnishes a marked contrast to "The Prisoner of Zenda," and is in a more serious vein, having a strong and tragic undercurrent, and not without an element of peril. Confining its occurrences pretty severely to the possible and generally probable, it nevertheless is highly original. Dale Bannister, the wild young poet, who commences by thoroughly scandalising Market Denborough, is a most...
2) Quisanté
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After his kingdom of Ruritania had been invaded by a score or more of imitators, Mr. Anthony Hope came back to England to sing of a man sans arms, whose victories are as remarkable, if not so renowned, as those of Rudolph Rassendyll. Alexander Quisante becomes a power in the house of commons and a ruler in that realm of finance known in London as 'the city,' all by the grace of a ready tongue, an adjustable conscience, and the stupidity of his fellow...
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The first tale in this book contains all necessary elements of a novel: Hope describes the first meeting of two people, and imagines their entire future together. The male character is a traveling Englishman, constantly searching for something more, and the woman is a widowed Marquesa. The other tales are variations on interactions between a man and woman.
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This 1899 novel, of which Hope had a very high opinion, represented a change in his fictional dynamic, from a focus on adventure and intrigue to the no-less riveting dramas of internal conflict and development. A young king learns the wisdom of self-discipline and restraint as he leads his country through troubled times.
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It is easy to be enthusiastic about the story. It is psychologic-but with a difference, the difference being the bright and compelling interest of Mr. Hope's dialogue, and the smiling sanity of his spirit. Imagine much that is best in Meredith or James, and all that is best in Anthony Hope, and you have a fair idea of 'A Servant of the Public'. It is not the conventional story of the stage, with glib talk of the greenroom, and intimate glimpses 'behind...
6) Simon Dale
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England, 1647: a wise woman has predicted the birth of Simon Dale, to the very day and district. But if the rest of her ominous forecast is accurate, how can this ordinary child be predestined to love where the King loved, know what the King hid, and drink of the King's cup? For the young man, Simon Dale, only one course of action can be taken: not to seek his own path, but to leave himself in the hands of Fate. This brilliant novel charts an absorbing...
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Double Harness is a chilling contrast to Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romances. It provides an intimate look at the institution of marriage, revealing the necessity of collaboration and personal growth required for a marriage to be successful. Confronting topics including child abuse, spousal abuse, infidelity and abortion, this novel is unexpectedly gritty and progressive in its attempt to address issues not normally discussed in other works of turn-of-the-Century...
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The story gives a fair account of the power, or lack of power, of the vast majority of women at the time in which it is set and, in the great Miss Driver herself, demonstrates how wealth and no husband were the one recipe for a woman to have control of her own life. Finally, it shows how a decent man could love such a woman and be, if not her lover, her loving friend.
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The novel begins "The world considered Eugene Lane a very fortunate young man; and if youth, health, social reputation, a seat in Parliament, a large income, and finally the promised hand of an acknowledged beauty can make a man happy, the world was right." In this book, a young Anglican priest, torn between love and faith, must reconcile the urgings of body and soul.
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The eponymous heroine of this 1910 novel leaves her overbearing husband and embarks on a quest to find love with a compatible partner. Said the New York Times: "Mr. Hope has handled the subject delicately and convincingly, and makes plain the fact that men and women must conform to the majority opinion, right or wrong, or pay the penalty."
11) Captain Dieppe
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Two women, one married and the other not, exchange identities to deceive the wife's husband. Captain Dieppe, soldier of fortune, arrives at the Castle Fieramondi and woos the woman he thinks is the wife. Hot on Dieppe's heels is a detective of the French Republic, whom Dieppe had tried to overthrow in a coup. Also entering the plot is a villain bent on blackmailing the wife. Eventually everything is sorted out.
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The fate of Harry Tristram's inheritance hangs on a technicality of the calendar, and the outcome is not in Harry's favor. All he wants is to own the House of Blent, but unless he can convince himself to marry someone he does not love, Harry may have to relinquish his estate to his cousin Cecily. Readers will relish the story's ingenious denouement and Hope's precise character study.
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Anthony Hope has written two kinds of stories; one interesting for the civilised detail, the other for the situation and plot. When we read the first kind we do not care about the result, and we don't get excited. If we have plenty of leisure and care for little turns of expression, feeling, and thought, and care a great deal for clean and pleasant society, we are content with books like "The Dolly Dialogues." The mixture of tolerance, urbanity, and...
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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, 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...
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Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895 but not published until 1898. The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from The Prisoner of Zenda. The frame implies that the events related in both books took place in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic...
16) Mr. Witt's Widow
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Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale Protests is the 1892 novel by the famous author Anthony Hope. The story is in the same vein as his other cheeky heroine novels, such as Sophy of Kravonia and The Dolly Dialogues.
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was training to become a lawyer and barrister when he wrote his sixth novel, "The Prisoner of Zenda", in 1894. It took one month to finish the first draft, and it quickly achieved such great success that Hope turned to writing full-time. The story is set in the fictional country of Ruritania, on the eve of the new king's coronation. When the king is suddenly abducted, an Englishman who bears a striking resemblance to him is...
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The Heart of Princess Osra is part of Anthony Hope's trilogy of novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania and which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance. This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau. The stories deal with the love...
19) Half a Hero
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Anthony Hope's novel, 'Half a Hero,' is a study of political and social life in the English colony of New Lindsey, which may possibly be New Zealand. The half hero is one Medland, leader of the radicals, who by a coalition comes into power as premier. He had been a common laborer, had risen by integrity and energy, and although unpolished of manners shows qualities that make the true man. The humor of the situation arises from the necessity forced...
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The scene of this story of mystery and romance is laid in the little town of Inkston, near London, shortly after the world war. Interest centres in three characters: the "puzzling unaccounted-for Mr Beaumaroy," recently of the British army overseas, now companion to an eccentric old man; the old man himself, Aloyslus William Saffron, lonely and crazed by the war, who lives in Tower cottage; and Dr. Mary Arkroyd, who attends Mr. Saffron in his last...
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