Prisoner of Zenda by K.J. Charles, is told from Jasper Detchard's (one of the Six) point of view and centers around a romantic relationship between him and Rupert of Hentzau. Legacy In a popular but very questionable account, a German circus acrobat named Otto Witte claimed he had been briefly mistaken for the new King of Albania at the time of that country's separation from the Ottoman Empire, and that he was crowned and reigned a few days. However, the date of this claim (1913), and the lack of any evidence to back it up, suggest that Witte made up his story after seeing the first film version of the novel. Author Salman Rushdie cited The Prisoner of Zenda in the epigraph to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the novel he wrote while living in hiding in the late 1980s. The novel has been part of the syllabus of higher secondary schools in Pakistan for over three decades. See alsoThe Heart of Princess OsraRupert of HentzauThe Prince and the Pauper'' Man in the Iron Mask References External links Review of The Prisoner of Zenda by Jo Walton The Ruritanian Resistance – comprehensive fan site 1894 British novels Novels by Anthony Hope English adventure novels British novels adapted into films British novels adapted into television shows J. W. Arrowsmith books British novels adapted into plays Novels set in Europe Novels set in fictional countries Eastern Europe in fiction Fictional Eastern European people