soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) (02/08/86)
In article <145@gsg.UUCP> kathy@gsg.UUCP (Kathryn Smith) writes: >For those who don't get the reference, Ruritania >is a ficticious central European country created by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner >of Zenda. I haven't read the original myself, but judging by the Classics >Illustrated version which I read years ago, it's pulp melodrama, narrated by an >English Gentleman, and probably pretty heavy going. > I have read *The Prisoner of Zenda*, and I enjoyed it immensely. Yes it is pretty much 'pulp meladrama' but I didn't find it heavy going at all. It has been very much by imitated pulp writers ever since--I remember a Hitchcock presents--Three investigators book which was very remeniscent, and for that matter, Ruritania looks like a direct ancestor of our own Latveria. Have a Nice Day Soren Petersen