The Secret of a Cellar

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony HOPE (1863 - 1933)

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the King’s Life and his Throne from the King’s dastardly brother and his allies. Woods, moated castles, pomp, swordplay, gallantry, villainy and a beautiful princess. What story could ask for more? (Summary by Andy Minter) The sequel Rupert of Hentzau is also available as a LIbriVox recording.

Listen next episodes of The Prisoner of Zenda:
A Desperate Plan , A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother , A Great Chance for a Villain , A New Use for a Tea-Table , A Night Outside the Castle , An Improvement on Jacob's Ladder , Face to Face in the Forest , His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau , Hunting a Very Big Boar , I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook , I Talk with a Tempter , If Love Were All! , Present, Past--and Future? , The Forcing of the Trap , The Prisoner and the King , Young Rupert's Midnight Diversions