Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, who wrote all his fiction as Anthony Hope, is best known as the author of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894). While the popularity of this novel eclipsed that of all his other work...
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins is best known as Anthony Hope, author of The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (1894), the adventure tale that in his li...
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In the following review of A Change of Air, Elliott admires Hope's characterizations, but finds the novel less satisfying than The Prisoner of Zenda.
[In] A Change of Air, we find a short bi...
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In the following excerpt, Cooper praises Hope's literary technique, and his ability to write well consistently in different genres.
It is a sufficiently pleasant task to undertake to write a...
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In the following excerpt, Elwin presents a critical overview of Hope's body of work.
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, who wrote under the name of Anthony Hope, provides another instance of a noveli...
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In the following excerpt, Putt examines Hope's transition from a writer of adventure novels to novels commenting on contemporary British society.
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One day in November, 1893, a young barrist...
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Anthony Hope
Critical Essay by Sarah Barnwell Elliott
