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Anthony Hope — British Writer born on February 09, 1863, died on July 08, 1933

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau . These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name... (wikipedia)