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A Man of Mark By Anthony Hope

A Man of Mark

By Anthony Hope

  • Release Date: 2015-08-24
  • Genre: Short Stories
  • $5.99

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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933) was an English playwright and writer, who coined the Ruritania. His father - a priest, a mother - aunt of the writer Kenneth Grahame. He graduated from Oxford. Started as a lawyer engaged in literature, essays and novels published in newspapers and magazines. This success brought him two action-packed novel - "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898), deserved not only popular with the general public, but also to high critical acclaim. During his life, he wrote many works that remain popular today.
"A Man of Mark" is a excellent work by Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. In a plot he is as inventive and interesting as he was in "The Indiscretions of a Duchess." The scene is laid in the City of Whittingham, at the mouth of the Marcus River, "on the coast of South America, rather to the north."