Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), 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 (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). 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. CONTENTS "Anthony Hope" A Mission to the Heathen The New Man at Littlehill Denborough Determines to Call A Quiet Sunday Afternoon The Necessary Scapegoat Littlehill Goes into Society "To a Pretty Saint" An Indiscreet Disciple Dale's Own Opinion A Prejudiced Verdict A Fable About Birds A Dedication-and a Desecration The Responsibilities of Genius Mr. Delane Likes the Idea How it Seemed to the Doctor "No More Kings" Dale Tries His Hand at an Ode Delilah Johnstone A Well-Paid Poem An Evening's End "The Other Girl Did" The Fitness of Things A Morbid Scruple The Heroine of the Incident The Scene of the Outrage Against Her Better Judgment A Villain Unmasked A Vision