A review by bookishwendy
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

3.0

An enjoyable classic swashbuckler, though it feels overdone now. The protagonist is fun as the bored, entitled young aristocrat who heads off to the continent just for grins and gets tangled up in all manner of political machinations outside his interests and abilities (or are they!?). The doppelganger plot device is amusingly quaint, but since it results in some of the best scenes (that one with the table) I'm not complaining. I'm just going to blame British Victorian classicism/moralizing for that unfulfilling ending.