The Prisoner of Zenda
About this book
An adventure novel, originally published in 1894, set in the fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania. An English tourist is persuaded to impersonate the new king after he is abducted before he can be crowned. This act draws upon him the wrath of the Prince who has had the king abducted and his partner in crime the villainous Rupert of Hentzau.
Subjects
- adventure
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure stories
- anglais (langue)
- attempted murder
- british
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- british -- foreign countries -- fiction
- children's all ages - fiction - adventure
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- classics
- collectors and collecting
- crime, fiction
- elt graded readers
- english adventure stories
- english language
- english language readers
- english language, textbooks for foreign speakers
- english literature
- étude et enseignement
- europe, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- foreign countries
- foreign speakers
- great britain, fiction
- impersonation
- impostors and imposture
- impostors and imposture -- fiction
- kings and rulers
- kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction
- large type books
- lectures et morceaux choisis
- literature
- political kidnapping
- prisoners
- prisonniers
- readers
- readers (adult)
- revenge in fiction
- romans, nouvelles
- ruritania (imaginary place), fiction
- study and teaching
- thriller
- travel
- treason
- upper class