Well, this was a jolly romp of a tale! Kind of a grown-up version of
The Prince and the Pauper, in a way, but with the switch of commoner and royalty being deliberate and done for an actual reason.
Rudolf Rassendyll, a wealthy young man idly wasting his life at gentlemanly nonsense, goes to visit distant relatives in the middle-European (and fictional) country of Ruritania. There, he meets another Rudolf, his distant cousin who is about to be crowned king. After a night of drunken revelry, the...
Published on April 08, 2022 07:01