![]() ![]() On his first evening at the hotel in Zenda he learns that the king is resting at a nearby shooting-lodge on the estate of Michael, Duke of Strelsau, the king’s half-brother, to whom belongs the great castle of Zenda. Because it appears that accommodation will be difficult to secure at Strelsau, the capital city, he decides to stay at Zenda, a small town ten miles from the frontier and fifty from the capital. ![]() At the frontier he learns that the coronation is to take place unexpectedly soon, in two days’ time. He has let his acquaintances in London and Paris know only that he is to visit Dresden and the Tyrol. Rudolf Rassendyll, who shares a common ancestor with the King of Ruritania (an imaginary country in Central Europe), visits Ruritania for the first time, with the intension of seeing the new king’s coronation. As soon as I read the first page I was hooked, I just wanted to know what happened next and that’s what you expect from a good book. During my college days, I came across a book called ‘The prisoner of Zenda’ written by Anthony Hope. ![]()
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