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Ruritania

Author : Nicholas Daly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198836600
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Ruritania written by Nicholas Daly and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.

The Prisoner of Zenda

Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of Zenda written by Anthony Hope and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heart of Princess Osra

Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Princess Osra written by Anthony Hope and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rupert of Hentzau : from the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim

Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher : G.N. Morang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Rupert of Hentzau : from the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim written by Anthony Hope and published by G.N. Morang. This book was released on 1898 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Cake Day in Ruritania

Author : Mark P Henderson
Publisher : Fantastic Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912053837
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book National Cake Day in Ruritania written by Mark P Henderson and published by Fantastic Books Publishing. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the job, collect the fee, and don’t look in the envelope. Rory Redman’s exploits might drive his contemporaries to rage and himself to insolvency, but he has never put anyone in real danger – before now. His desperation for money drives him to accept a commission that he knows has crossed a line. All he has to do is keep a lid on his curiosity and his troubles are behind him. But Rory Redman was never one to deny an impulse. There is a heart-stopping inevitability about the way his choices funnel him ever further from safety and ever further from home. The mutual attraction between him and Ariadne Sowerby might be the route to salvation except that both strive to hide their feelings and Rory’s suicidal curiosity focuses on Klarissa Alterleta, the strange woman whose antics escalated his minor troubles into the stratosphere. In Ruritania, a country that roams Europe like a restless wanderer, a national crisis is brewing. Cut-throat revolutionaries, national security forces and Britain’s secret service are all involved, and are all overtly or covertly at each other’s throats. But they share a lone goal – each is determined to find Rory Redman and wipe him from the face of the earth. Ariadne might have helped him if he hadn’t alienated her. Klarissa could save him from the worst of his pursuers, but she won’t. Forced back on to his own inner strength, Rory girds his loins and faces the fact that his only real expertise lies in logic, marathon running and Morris dancing. The contest is surely lost before it has begun.

Inventing Ruritania

Author : Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231704236
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Ruritania written by Vesna Goldsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published more than a decade ago, Inventing Ruritania has become a standard study of the West's attitude toward the Balkans -- the "Wild East" of Europe. With its Western and Oriental influences, the Balkans have both attracted and repelled outsiders, offering a tantalizing alternative to familiar society. Completely different from "us" yet exactly what "we" used to be, the Balkans have particularly provided Western European and American writers and filmmakers with a wealth of images, characters, and ideas. In her prodigiously researched volume, Vesna Goldsworthy explores the entertainment industry's lucrative exploitation of Balkan history and geography and its affect on Western conceptions of the region. She traces the national, religious, and sexual fears foreign observers project onto Balkan lands and the use of Balkan archetypes. The work of an Anglo-Serbian writer and former BBC journalist turned academic, Inventing Ruritania maps an imaginary geography that has had palpable consequences in the practical world.

Far-Fetched Facts

Author : Richard Rottenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264447
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Far-Fetched Facts written by Richard Rottenburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts, and local managers. In 1996, the sub-Saharan African country of Ruritania launched a massive waterworks improvement project, funded by the Normesian Development Bank, headquartered in Urbania, Normland, and with the guidance of Shilling & Partner, a consulting firm in Mercatoria, Normland. Far-Fetched Facts tells the story of this project, as narrated by anthropologists Edward B. Drotlevski and Samuel A. Martonosi. Their account of the Ruritanian waterworks project views the problems of development from a new perspective, focusing on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development bank, international experts, and local managers. This development project is fictionalized, of course, although based closely on author Richard Rottenburg's experiences working on and observing different development projects in the 1990s. Rottenburg uses the case of the Ruritanian waterworks project to examine issues of standardization, database building, documentation, calculation, and territory mapping. The techniques and technologies of the representational practices of documentation are crucial, Rottenburg argues, both to day-to-day management of the project and to the demonstration of the project's legitimacy. Five decades of development aid (or “development cooperation,” as it is now sometimes known) have yielded disappointing results. Rottenburg looks in particular at the role of the development consultant (often called upon to act as mediator between the other actors) and at the interstitial spaces where developmental cooperation actually occurs. He argues that both critics and practitioners of development often misconstrue the grounds of cooperation—which, he claims, are moral, legal, and political rather than techno-scientific or epistemological.

The Henchmen of Zenda

Author : Kj Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912688005
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Henchmen of Zenda written by Kj Charles and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper Detchard is a disgraced British officer, now selling his blade to the highest bidder. Currently that's Michael Elphberg, half-brother to the King of Ruritania. Michael wants the throne for himself, and Jasper is one of the scoundrels he hires to help him take it. But when Michael makes his move, things don't go entirely to plan-and the penalty for treason is death. Rupert of Hentzau is Michael's newest addition to his sinister band of henchmen. Charming, lethal, and intolerably handsome, Rupert is out for his own ends-which seem to include getting Jasper into bed. But Jasper needs to work out what Rupert's really up to amid a maelstrom of plots, swordfights, scheming, impersonation, desire, betrayal, and murder. Nobody can be trusted. Everyone has a secret. And love is the worst mistake you can make. A retelling of the swashbuckling classic The Prisoner of Zenda from a very different point of view.

The Lost Prince

Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368286439
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Prince written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Prisoner of Zenda Illustrated

Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of Zenda Illustrated written by Anthony Hope and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.

Cities of Salt

Author : ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cities of Salt written by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1988 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spell-binding evocation of Bedouin life in the 1930s when oil is discovered by Americans in an unnamed Persian Gulf kingdom.

The Mad King

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612105548
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Mad King written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2012-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young american is mistaken for a mad king and the adventure begins! A story of action and intrigue and a noble hero!

Analysing English Sentences

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521660084
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Analysing English Sentences written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Molvania:A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry

Author : R Sitch
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742731295
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Molvania:A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry written by R Sitch and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funniest book about travel you will ever read: a travel guide to the fictional European republic 'Molvania', birthplace of the polka and whooping cough. The text and design draw on the standard travel guide format and include: background information on the destination, including cultural details, useful phrases, holidays, and calendar of events; accommodation and restaurant listings; activities and excursions; as well as text break-outs, colour photos and maps throughout.

War, Aggression and Self-Defence

Author : Yoram Dinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108127363
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book War, Aggression and Self-Defence written by Yoram Dinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to international legal issues of war and peace, the crime of aggression, self-defence and its trigger, armed attack, and the different modalities of self-defence, as well as enforcement measures taken under the aegis of a binding decision of the Security Council. This new and fully updated 6th edition focuses on the key issues at the forefront of the contemporary international legal debate, as well as analysing the new armed conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and Georgia, re-examining the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression and considering the phenomenon of 'robust' mandates of a peacekeeping force. Suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, this market-leading book offers a wide-ranging and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence.

Causation in the Law of the World Trade Organization

Author : Catherine Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316511308
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Causation in the Law of the World Trade Organization written by Catherine Gascoigne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes an alternative methodology for determining causation in WTO law by drawing on causal philosophy and econometric analysis.

English Syntax

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542753
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book English Syntax written by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook--an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English--provides a concise and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it takes students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. There is an extensive glossary, and each chapter contains a workbook section with 'helpful hints', exercises and model answers, suitable for both class discussion and self-study.