Dashing adventure, fictional kingdoms and mistaken identity make Anthony Hope's novel sheer delight.
This book seems at first to be just a good story; well-written, clever, and all that, but the last two chapters make it a book that every woman should read. It is indeed a "sheer delight," a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is very well-written with beautiful description. The chapter "A New Use for a Tea-Table" is particularly enjoyable and every woman should aspire to fall in love with a man like Rudolph. I highly recommend this book!
Quotes:
- "I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and
beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty. - "if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side of the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves."
- "It was a maxim of my Uncle William's that no man should pass through Paris without spending four-and-twenty hours there."
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