An English gentleman who is the double of a kidnapped king is persuaded to impersonate him and save the throne of Ruritania. The swashbuckling romance that named a whole genre.
Books mentioned in The Prisoner of Zenda (1)
The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: “I called on George Featherly at the Embassy, and we had a bit of dinner together at Durand's, and afterwards dropped in to the Opera; and after that we had a little supper, and after that we called on Bertram Bertrand, a versifier of some repute and Paris correspondent to _The Critic_.”
Books that mention The Prisoner of Zenda (2)
The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason: “Perhaps in its literary kinship it approaches more closely to "The Prisoner of Zenda" than to any other recent novel, but there is no evidence of imitation; the resemblance is in the spirit and dash of the narrative.”
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver: “But the storybook was The Prisoner of Zenda.”