A Servant of the Public

by Anthony Hope, Harold Percival (Illustrator)

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (1863-1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, and is remembered best for The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).

378 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1905

About the author

Prolific English novelist and playwright Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins especially composed adventure. People remember him best only for the book The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania, spawned the genre, known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda inspired many adaptations, most notably the Hollywood movie of 1937 of the same name.