Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins , better known as Anthony Hope (February 9, 1863 - July 8, 1933), is a British novelist and playwright. He is a prolific writer, especially an adventure novel but he is remembered mainly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and his sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, the "small classical literature" of English literature, set in the land of contemporary Ratatitania fiction and spawned a genre known as the romance of Ruritania, work in locations of European fiction similar to novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, especially the Hollywood movie of 1937 with the same name.
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Hopes were educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. The hope trained as a lawyer and lawyer, was summoned to the Bar by the Central Temple in 1887. He served his students under the future of Liberal Prime Minister HH Asquith, who regarded him as a promising lawyer and disappointed with his decision to switch writing.
Hope had time to write, because his working days were not too full during these early years and he lived with his widowed father, then the vicar of St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Hope's short pieces appeared in the magazine, but for her first book, she was forced to use her own publishing publisher. A Man of Mark (1890) mainly because of his resemblance to Zenda : he is set in an imaginary country, Aureataland and displays political turmoil and humor. More novels and short stories followed, including Father Stafford in 1891 and a somewhat successful Journalist Mr. Witt in 1892. He stood as a Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election of 1892 but was not elected. In 1893 he wrote three novels ( Sport Royal , A Change of Air and Half-a-Hero ) and a series of first-appeared sketches at the Westminster Gazette and collected in 1894 as The Dolly Dialogues, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Dolly was her first literary success. A.E.W. Mason considered this conversation "totally organized in London in their day so that social historians are not wise to ignore it," and say they were written with "subtle intelligence [and] the color of sorrow."
The idea for Hope's account of political intrigue, Prisoner Zenda, who became a three-month history in the life of an Englishman, came to him at the close of 1893 when he walked in London. Hope completed the first draft in a month and the book was printed in April. This story is set in the fictitious empire of Europe 'Ruritania', a term meaning 'the location of novelists and dramatists for court romance in a modern setting'. Zenda gained instant success and his ingenious protagonist, debonair Rudolf Rassendyll, became a famous literary work. The novel is praised by Mason, literary critic Andrew Lang, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Zenda's popularity convinced Hope to give up "a brilliant legal career that seemed to lie ahead" to be a full-time writer but she "never again achieved complete artistic success as in this one." in 1894, Hope produced The God in the Car, a political story.
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Hope wrote 32 volumes of fiction during his lifetime and he has many followers. In 1896 he published The Chronicles of Count Antonio, followed in 1897 by an adventure story on the Greek island, titled Phroso . He went on a publicity tour of the United States in late 1897, where he was impressed as a New York Times reporter as somewhat like Rudolf Rassendyll: a well-dressed Englishman with a warm laugh, soldier attitude, a dry sense of humor, "quiet , courtesy, "and air full of majesty.
In 1898, he wrote Simon Dale , a historical novel involving actress and prostitute Nell Gwyn. Marie Tempest appeared in a dramatization, titled English Nell . One of Hope's dramas, The Adventure of Lady Ursula, was produced in 1898. This was followed by her novel The King's Mirror (1899), which Hope regarded as one of the best. work; and Captain Dieppe (1899). In 1900, he published Quisantà ©  © and he was elected committee chairman of the Society of Authors. He wrote Tristram of Blent in 1901, The Intrusions of Peggy in 1902, and Double Harness in 1904, followed by Servant of the Public in 1905, about acting love.
In 1906, he produced Sophy of Kravonia, a novel in the same vein as Zenda, which was serialized in Windsor Magazine; Roger Lancelyn Green strongly prioritizes this effort. Nevertheless, the story was filmed twice, in Italy in 1916 as Sofia De Kravonia , and in the United States in 1920 as Sophy of Kravonia or, The Virgin of Paris . Both adaptations feature actress Diana Karenne in the title role (billed as "Diana Kareni" in the last movie).
In 1907, a collection of short stories and novels was published under the title The Story of Two People ; and the novel "Helena's Path". In 1910, he wrote the Second String , followed by Madame Maxon Protest the following year.
Hope wrote and co-wrote many drama and non-fiction politics during the First World War, some under the auspices of the Ministry of Information. The subsequent publications included the The Secret of the Tower , and Beaumaroy Home from the Wars , in 1919 and Lucinda in 1920. Lancelyn Green asserted that Hope is "a first-rate amateur but only a second-rate professional writer.
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