Anthony Hope finished the first draft of  Rupert of Hentzau in a month and the story was set in the fictional European kingdom of 'Ruritania'.
Hope finished the first draft in a month and the book was in print by April. The idea for Hope's tale of political intrigue, The Prisoner of Zenda, being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman, came to him at the close of 1893 as he was walking in London. The story is set in the fictional European kingdom of 'Ruritania', a term which has come to mean "the novelist's and dramatist's locale for court romances in a modern setting." 
