This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau.
The story is Burrough's version of the then popular Ruritanian romance exemplified by Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau.
Rupert Murdoch | Rupert | Prince Rupert of the Rhine | Rupert Brooke | Prince Rupert | Rupert (TV series) | Rupert Sheldrake | Rupert Hine | Rupert Bear | Prince Rupert, British Columbia | Rupert of Deutz | Rupert's Land | Rupert of Hentzau | Rupert Holmes | Rupert Giles | Rupert of Bingen | Rupert I | Rupert Graves | Rupert Friend | Rupert Boneham | Rupert of Salzburg | Rupert Lowe | Rupert Hughes | Rupert Hamer | Rupert Grint | Jeff Rupert | Edward Rupert Burrowes | The Great Rupert | Rupert Riedl | Rupert Pole |