Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born in 1863 and, after taking a degree at Oxford University, was called to the bar in 1887. He initially combined a successful career as a barrister with writing but the immediate success of his tenth book, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), allowed him to become a full-time writer. The novel spawned a new genre – Ruritanian romance – and has been adapted numerous times for film, television and stage. In all, Hope wrote thirty-two works of fiction and an autobiography. At the close of the First World War he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda work. Hope died in 1933.
El prisionero de Zenda es una novela escrita en el año 1894 por el autor británico Sir Anthony Hoppe Hawkins (1863, Londres - 1933) del subgénero novelesco de capa y espada y que nos cuenta cómo Rudolf Rassendyll, un joven inglés pelirrojo y con una llamativa nariz puntiaguda, rasgos...
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