id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2528 Ruritanian romance - Wikipedia .html text/html 1597 185 68 But it was the great popularity of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) which set the type, with its handsome political decoy restoring the rightful king to the throne, and resulted in a burst of similar popular fiction, such as George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark novels (1901–27) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince (1915), Edgar Rice Burrough's The Mad King of Lutha (1914), and other homages.[2] In children's literature, the 1938–39 The Adventures of Tintin comic King Ottokar's Sceptre[3][4][5] eschewed literal romance, but is an adventure about foiling a plot to depose the king of Syldavia. Many elements of the genre have been transplanted into fantasy worlds, particularly those of fantasy of manners and alternate history.[9] The science fiction writer Andre Norton first reached success with a 1934 Ruritanian novel, The Prince Commands.[9] Although "Ruritania" originally referred to a contemporary country, the idea has been adapted for use in historical fiction. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2528.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2528.txt