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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofAnthony Hopewhich areThe Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau. Anthony Hope was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels. His works are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Novels selected for this book: - The Prisoner of Zenda - Rupert of Hentzau This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
It was dusk; and the mountains were reverberating with loud thunder-claps, while the rain helped to swell a turbid river that swept through the valley, and past the door of a small wirth-haus or inn, known less by its sign of "The Crown," than as "am Sand," by reason of the strip of sand on which it was built. A cheerful looking, comely woman, clad in a superabundance of woollen petticoats, was busy at the stove, cooking the supper of a foot-traveller who read a crumpled newspaper at the window; while surrounding the kitchen-table, three or four peasants, who had been driven in by the rain, were hungrily supping milk-porridge from a large bowl common to them all. A pretty girl of sixteen, af...
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It is the summer of 2022 in Yugoslavia, a prominent member of the European Union, with a war raging at its borders. FROM TRAGEDY EMERGE SECRETS, NOT OF ONE MAN BUT OF A WHOLE COUNTRY Following a sudden and tragic car accident where his friend dies, Esad Kajan, an airline pilot for Yugoslav Airlines, is thrust into a whirlwind of revelation as he uncovers unexpected layers to his friend's seemingly ordinary life. What begins as a personal tragedy soon escalates into a gripping battle against insurmountable odds. In the shadows of peace, a conspiracy takes flight With conspiracy lurking in the shadows and unsettling discoveries of mysterious transactions, Esad embarks on an extraordinary journ...
(From the Foreword) The Vermillion County Historical Society was organized in 1958, with the purpose-"to seek to collect and preserve articles and facts of historical interest and facts connected with the development of our county, and the State and the Territory of Indiana."