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ABOUT, EDMOND (1828-1885). THE KING OF THE MOUNTAINS.
Akron, Ohio: The St Hubert Guild, nd (ca 1920) Reprint. Perhaps the best known book by this French novelist, journalist, and writer, who was also a precursor to science fiction (one of his novels described reviving a mummified man), originally published in 1856. Translated from the French and with a critical introduction by Andrew Lang. This novel, which is on many lists of 'recommended classic fiction', is based, with only slight exaggeration, on the character of the Greek brigand, Xristodoulos Hadji-Petros, who was known as King of the Mountains - the name has only been slightly changed in the novel to Hadji-Stavros, and the fascinating Jane Digby, who was to have an affair with the real Hadji-Petros is mentioned briefly in this book under her title in Greece: Countess Janthe Theotoki. This edition also includes a brief biographical sketch of the author by Edmund Gosse and a sectionof portraits of About with text by Octave Uzanne. A title in the Crown Gems of France series xxi,.317 pp Very good in rust cloth with yellow and black lettering and decorations (a few small spots to the upper edge of the front cover.)
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