novels published online which occur largely in modern day Ruritania, renamed Ruthenia. The Crown of Tassilo is a second series of five more novels which occur in the period between Anthony Hope's novels (late 1880s) and modern day. The linked novels cover a wide range of genres but cover topics including the restoration of the Ruthenian monarchy, aristocratic intrigue, commoners, love, christianity, history of the fictional country, the Ruthenian language, and gay eroticism. Avram Davidson's Doctor Eszterhazy stories are set in a fictitious ramshackle Balkan empire resembling Austria-Hungary, but with Ruritanian characteristics. Ursula K. Le Guin set a number of short stories and a novel in the fictitious Eastern European land of "Orsinia", which has been identified as being simultaneously Ruritanian and naturalistic. Hayao Miyazaki's animated film The Castle of Cagliostro is set in the fictional country of Cagliostro, inspired by Riviera and Monaco. The Student Prince, an operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly, also adapted several times to film, has as its protagonist the heir apparent to the fictitious kingdom of Karlsberg who is sent away to the University of Heidelberg where he falls in love with a bar maid. The affair is doomed by his royal responsibilities when he is recalled to attend his dying grandfather, the king. Subsequent to his succession he is forced by duty to marry a well-dowered princess. The Tin Princess is a 1994 children's novel by Philip Pullman set in the fictional Central European country of Razkavia. See also List of fictional European countries Alternate history References External links Robert Louis Stevenson's Prince Otto Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince James Dunford Wood's Continental With Juice Historical fiction Romance genres Literary genres Eastern Europe in fiction