The Indiscretion of the Duchess: being a story concerning two ladies, a nobleman, and a necklace is the 1894 work by the famed author of the swashbuckling work, The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope. The novel is noted as one of the slower, but more complex and developed of Hope's romantic novels Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.