Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crown[...]

Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.[...]

In this classic, a fiendish plot forces the rightful king of Ruritania to miss his coronation. Rudolf Rassendyll, a dashing English lookalike, is persuaded to impersonate the monarch -- only to find himself drawn into a struggle to save the country and obtain the release of a false accused prisoner.[...]

Anthony Kelly offers the reader an introduction to the central theme of Christian eschatology, the doctrine and study of what Christians hope for as they follow the Way taught by the prophets and saints and, above all, opened up in the paschal mystery of Jesus of Nazareth. Kelly examines the concept[...]

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet, even when compared to the most significant figures of the 20th century, his legacy remains a brilliantly [...]

Rudolf Rassendyll ger sig ut på en resa till Ruritanien, landet från vilket hans förfader kom. I Ruritanien blir han på grund av sin likhet till kungen indragen i ett händelseförlopp där han måste ta kungens plats när denne har blivit tillfångatagen av sin elaka halvbror, svarte Mikael.

Winslow is a troubled boy with a recurring dream. When mysterious, alien figures show up to literally dissolve the memories out of Winslow's mind, Winslow realizes that his dream may be the most important memory in the world, and one that has been wiped from the collective minds of everyone on earth[...]