The King of the Mountains
by Edmond About
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Researcher Hermann Schultz sets off on a voyage to Greece with the aim of collecting botanical and natural specimens. Once he arrives, however, he finds that his field work will be rather more complicated than he bargained for. The mountain range where he intended to carry out his study is controlled by a shadowy league of thieves and bandits. Will Schultz be able to escape their clutches?.
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A short amusing novella about a Greek brigand on a large scale. This story intersects with Hamburg botanist, Hermann Schulz. The story rests around Hermann and two wealthy society ladies being kidnapped by the brigands and their escapes.
Read in the original French. An adventure novel set in Greece and starring a a bandit names Stavros. Competent dime-novel material.
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- Canonical title
- The King of the Mountains
- Original title
- Le Roi des montaignes
- Original publication date
- 1857
- Dedication
- To MADAM CHARLES BEAINNE.You, Madam, had the first hearing of this story. I related it to you three months ago, the day after your marriage, when I did not know it over well myself. Whether you will or no, you must remember, ... (show all)all your life, a recital the date of which will save it from being forgotten. In a quarter of a century, when the young woman that we admire in you shall have risen by degrees to the dignity of grandmother, if time, which devours all things, has not carried away the pages of this little book, you will read it again at the fireside, and the adventures of my old Pallicare will recall to you the happy day when you were twenty, with a future free from clouds, a present free from cares, and with disinterested friends.EDM. ABOUT.
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- ON the third of July, of this year, about six o'clock in the morning, I was engaged in the innocent occupation of watering my petunias, when I saw coming into the garden a tall, lightcomplexioned young man, whose beardless fa... (show all)ce was shaded by a German cap and ornamented by a pair of gold spectacles.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 848.86 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings Later 19th century 1848–1900
- LCC
- PQ2151 .R65 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 19th century
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- 6 — English, Esperanto, Estonian, French, Italian, Portuguese
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 30
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