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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: X-Men and Ruritania (Zenda that is)
Message-ID: <2470@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 18:33:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 18:33:27 1986
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Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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In article <145@gsg.UUCP> kathy@gsg.UUCP (Kathryn Smith) writes:
>For those who don't get the reference, Ruritania
>is a ficticious central European country created by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner
>of Zenda.  I haven't read the original myself, but judging by the Classics 
>Illustrated version which I read years ago, it's pulp melodrama, narrated by an
>English Gentleman, and probably pretty heavy going.
>
I have read *The Prisoner of Zenda*, and I enjoyed it immensely.  Yes it is
pretty much 'pulp meladrama' but I didn't find it heavy going at all.  It has
been very much by imitated pulp writers ever since--I remember a Hitchcock 
presents--Three investigators book  which was very remeniscent, and for that 
matter, Ruritania looks like a direct ancestor of our own Latveria.

			Have a Nice Day
				Soren Petersen