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Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope

English novelist and playwright, best known for writing The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, 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. Real name: Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Born1863-02-09, Clapton, London, England
Died1933-07-08, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England
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