Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Anthony Hope which are The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau. Anthony Hope was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels. His works are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Novels selected for this book: - The Prisoner of Zenda. - Rupert of Hentzau. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.