Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425001890
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Book Synopsis Rupert of Hentzau - from the Memoirs of by : Anthony Hope
Download or read book Rupert of Hentzau - from the Memoirs of written by Anthony Hope and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1905. Hope was a barrister who gave up the law after the success of his novel The Prisoner of Zenda. The book begins: A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy. The stakes had been high, the struggle keen; the edge of passion had been sharpened, and the seeds of enmity sown. Yet Michael, having struck for the crown, had paid for the blow with his life: should there not then be an end? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.