The Prisoner of ZendaOn a jaunt to the small European nation of Ruritania, an English gentleman discovers that he bears more than a passing resemblance to the King. Through a series of intrigues and adventures, he finds himself impersonating the king to defend him from a trecherous plot...and falling in love with the king's love, Princess Flavia |
Contents
The Rassendylls With a Word on the Elphbergs | 3 |
Concerning the Color of Mens Hair | 13 |
A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative | 23 |
The King Keeps His Appointment | 35 |
The Adventures of an Understudy | 45 |
The Secret of a Cellar | 55 |
His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau | 65 |
A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother | 75 |
An Improvement on Jacobs Ladder | 131 |
A Night Outside the Castle | 141 |
I Talk with a Tempter | 151 |
A Desperate Plan | 161 |
Young Ruperts Midnight Diversions | 171 |
The Forcing of the Trap | 181 |
Face to Face in the Forest | 189 |
The Prisoner and the King | 199 |
A New Use for a Teatable | 87 |
A Great Chance for a Villain | 99 |
Hunting a Very Big Boar | 109 |
I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook | 121 |
If Love Were All | 209 |
Present Past and Future? | 219 |
Common terms and phrases
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