The Heart of Princess Osra

The Heart of Princess Osra PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849694739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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No character in recent fiction has excited greater interest than the beautiful, wilful, cruel, tender-hearted, proud, witty, and wholly delightful Princess Osra. Anthony Hope is at his best in the stories of which she is the heroine.'The Heart of Princess Osra is full of throbs and incidents, and though there are not less than nine of the lady's passages d'amour, and 'le pays du tendre' is criss-crossed in all directions, you still want a baker's dozen of these stories.

The Heart of Princess Osra

The Heart of Princess Osra PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849694739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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No character in recent fiction has excited greater interest than the beautiful, wilful, cruel, tender-hearted, proud, witty, and wholly delightful Princess Osra. Anthony Hope is at his best in the stories of which she is the heroine.'The Heart of Princess Osra is full of throbs and incidents, and though there are not less than nine of the lady's passages d'amour, and 'le pays du tendre' is criss-crossed in all directions, you still want a baker's dozen of these stories.

Rupert of Hentzau : from the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim

Rupert of Hentzau : from the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: G.N. Morang
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The Prisoner Of Zenda

The Prisoner Of Zenda PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Well then — and I must premise that I am going, perforce, to rake up the very scandal which my dear Lady Burlesdon wishes forgotten — in the year 1733, George II. sitting then on the throne, peace reigning for the moment, and the King and the Prince of Wales being not yet at loggerheads, there came on a visit to the English Court a certain prince, who was afterwards known to history as Rudolf the Third of Ruritania. The prince was a tall, handsome young fellow, marked (maybe marred, it is not for me to say) by a somewhat unusually long, sharp and straight nose, and a mass of dark-red hair — in fact, the nose and the hair which have stamped the Elphbergs time out of mind. He stayed some months in England, where he was most courteously received; yet, in the end, he left rather under a cloud. For he fought a duel (it was considered highly well bred of him to waive all question of his rank) with a nobleman, well known in the society of the day, not only for his own merits, but as the husband of a very beautiful wife. In that duel Prince Rudolf received a severe wound, and, recovering therefrom, was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful. The nobleman was not wounded in the duel; but the morning being raw and damp on the occasion of the meeting, he contracted a severe chill, and, failing to throw it off, he died some six months after the departure of Prince Rudolf, without having found leisure to adjust his relations with his wife — who, after another two months, bore an heir to the title and estates of the family of Burlesdon. This lady was the Countess Amelia, whose picture my sister-in-law wished to remove from the drawing-room in Park Lane; and her husband was James, fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll, both in the peerage of England, and a Knight of the Garter. As for Rudolf, he went back to Ruritania, married a wife, and ascended the throne, whereon his progeny in the direct line have sat from then till this very hour — with one short interval. And, finally, if you walk through the picture galleries at Burlesdon, among the fifty portraits or so of the last century and a half, you will find five or six, including that of the sixth earl, distinguished by long, sharp, straight noses and a quantity of dark-red hair; these five or six have also blue eyes, whereas among the Rassendylls dark eyes are the commoner...FROM THE BOOKS.

The Heart of Princess Osra

The Heart of Princess Osra PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979309899
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Illustrated copy of The Heart of Princess Osra. The Heart of Princess Osra is part of Anthony Hope's trilogy of novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania and which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance. This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau. The stories deal with the love life of Princess Osra, younger sister of Rudolf III, the shared ancestor of Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who acts as political decoy in The Prisoner of Zenda, and Rudolph V of the House of Elphberg, the absolute monarch of that Germanic kingdom. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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