Books by Anthony Hope
Style: Classic
Attitude: Some Care Needed → Positive
Erstwhile King Rudolf of Ruritania is drugged and then kidnapped the day before his coronation; his guards Sapt and Fritz happen upon Rudolf Rassendyll, an Englishman abroad, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the king, due to the king's ancestor's having fathered a child somewhere in the Rassendyll ancestry.
Swashbuckling adventure with a dashing hero, a bearded villain and a lovely heroine.
Adventure, Boys, Classic, Historical, Romantic