One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Prisoner of Zenda

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Prisoner of Zenda

By ANTHONY HOPE Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS RURITANIA was not England, or the quarrel between Duke Michael and Rudolf…

The Prisoner of Zenda: Rudolf

Yet there was the struggle between Black Michael and Rudolf Rassendyll, both of the royal house of Elphberg, but of very differing…

The Prisoner of Zenda: Flavia

The wild ride to Strelsau, with Sapt instructing the English Rudolf most minutely in his past life, his family, his tastes, pursuits…

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