by Anthony Hope · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466336567
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«El prisionero de Zenda» is the classic adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published by Debolsillo in hardback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Rudolf Rassendyll, a young English nobleman, travels to the fictional kingdom of Ruritania to see Rudolf V crowned. The king is kidnapped by his brother, Duke Michael, and Rassendyll, who bears an astonishing resemblance to the monarch, must impersonate him to protect the throne. Amid conspiracies, duels, and Princess Flavia, he keeps up the charade while seeking to rescue the true king.
Novel originally published in 1894; this edition includes a prologue by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and a translation by Miguel Temprano García.
For fans of adventure classics and swashbuckling novels.
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).
