'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!'

    So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau?

    And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia?

Stage 3. Oxford bookworms library. Thriller & Adventure Bookworms provide enjoyable reading in English at six language stages, and offer a wide range of fiction, both classic modern.

1. The Rassendylls-and the Elphbergs
2. The colour of men's hair
3. The King goes to his coronation
4. My adventures begin
5. His Majesty returns to Strelsau
6. An adventure with a tea-table
7. For love of the King
8. Back to Zenda
9. News of the prisoner
10. A night outside the castle
11. A dangerous plan
12. The prisoner and the King
13. Goodbye to Ruritania

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