The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

⏱ 7 minAdventure classic

An idle Englishman who shares the very face of a foreign king is persuaded to impersonate him at his coronation, and is swept into a desperate game to rescue the real king from the castle of Zenda. The founding swashbuckler of Ruritanian romance.

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