Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version.
Anthony Hope Hawkins fue un escritor británico célebre por sus novelas de aventuras entre las cuales las más reconocidas son El prisionero de Zenda (1894) y Rupert de Hentzau (1898), que son «clásicos menores» de la literatura inglesa.
Anthony Hope, oik. Anthony Hope Hawkins, oli brittiläinen kirjailija. Hän työskenteli asianajajana mutta ryhtyi päätoimiseksi kirjailijaksi. Ensimmäisen maailmansodan jälkeen hän sai ansioistaan aatelisarvon. Hän kirjoitti romanttisia seikkailukirjoja, joita hän ei arvostanut vaan piti roskana. Muulle tuotannolle hän ei odottanut lukijoita. Esikoisromaani Presidentin kilpakosijat ilmestyi 1890. Hänen maineikkain teoksensa on Zendan vanki (1894), jonka tapahtumaympäristö on kuvitteellinen keskieurooppalainen valtio Ruritania.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters.
Antoine de la Sale was a French courtier, educator and writer.
He participated in a number of military campaigns in his youth and he only began writing when he had reached middle age, in the late 1430s.
He lived in Italy at the time, but returned to France in the 1440s, where he acted as umpire in tournaments, and he wrote a treatise on the history of the knightly tournament in 1459.
He became the tutor of the sons of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, to whom he dedicated a moral work in 1451.
His most successful work was Little John of Saintré, written in 1456, when he was reaching the age of seventy.
Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles eli abbé Prévost oli ranskalainen kirjailija ja jesuiittamunkki. Hänen elämänsä täyttyi seikkailuista, vaikka niistä karsisi ne monet tekaistut jutut, joita hänen ympärilleen on kehkeytynyt. Hänen myöhempi maineensa perustuu teokseen Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et Manon Lescaut eli Manon Lescaut.
