by Anthony Hope · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476340608
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«El prisionero de Zenda» is Anthony Hope's adventure novel, published by Ediciones Orbis in 1985 in paperback (138 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in the imaginary kingdom of Ruritania, where an English gentleman becomes involved in a palace conspiracy and ends up taking the king's place to prevent his enemies from seizing the throne. The plot combines adventure, romance, intrigue and betrayal in a classic of the nineteenth-century novel.
This edition belongs to the collection Las Grandes Novelas de Aventuras (no. 34) and includes the translation by María Teresa Segur Giralt; the work was originally published in 1894.
For readers who enjoy adventure classics, palace intrigues and period settings.
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).
