Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope , born on February 9th, 1863 and died in 1933, is a British novelist whose most known work is the Prisoner of Zenda .

Life

Benjamin of a family of Pasteur Anglican, Hope makes his studies of right to the college of Balliol, with Oxford, before coming lawyer. He starts to write news, and ends up giving up his legal career after the success of Mrs Witt' S Widow (1892), but especially of the Prisonnier of Zenda ( Prisoner off Zenda , 1894) of which the decoration, small imaginary kingdom of Ruritania will know an extraordinary fortune and will become the prototype of the kingdom of operetta.

Work

Liste of works
  • Mr. Witt' S Widow (1892)
  • Royal Sport (1893)
  • has Exchange off Air (1893)
  • Half-a-Hero (1893)
  • The Prisoner off Zenda (1894)
  • The Dolly Dialogs published episodically in The Westminster Gazette in 1894 (whose edition at least is illustrated by Arthur Rackham)
  • The Chronicles off Count Antonio
  • The Heart off the Princess Osra (1896)
  • Phroso (1897)
  • Simon Dale (1898)
  • Rupert off Hentzau (1898) (Continuation of the Captive of Zenda )
  • The King' S Mirror (1899)
  • Quisanté (1900)
  • The Adventure off Lady Ursula (Play played in 1898)
  • Double Harness (1904)
  • has Serving off the Public (nonromantic work) (1905)
  • Sophy off Kravonia (1906)
  • Second String (1910)
  • Mrs Maxon Protests (1911)
  • The New (German) Will , work of Propaganda (1914)
  • Beaumaroy Home from the Wars (1919)
  • Memories and Notes (1927)

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