Le roi des montagnes

Paris, Hachette and Co., 1861 in-8 (24 x 16 cm); 363pp. 4f. --- --- Fifth edition of this famous satirical novel illustrated by Gustave Dor and written by Edmond About, presenting a hilarious picture of modern Greece. The work contains 158 woodcut vignettes, including 12 full-page compositions. Checked and complete. Copy preserved in its publisher's cardboard in very good condition: slight tear in the canvas along the joints, very clean covers, decorated with a large gilded lace frame. Gilded decorations on the spine. All edges gilt. Headpieces slightly rubbed. Fresh interior, foxing on the endpapers. Very white paper. Very good condition. "In Le Roi des Montagnes, published in 1857, About, with his lively, concise style and pleasant humor served by a frequent but always happy use of understatement, deliberately ridicules the romantic myth of the pallikare or klephte this Greek highwayman who fascinated the Western imagination at the time (one only has to see the publishing success that the book met with at the time). That said, very much in need of posterity these days, About's literary work was, without a doubt, greatly eclipsed because of its temporal concordance with other works whose authors were those who gave their golden letters to poetry (Hugo, Baudelaire) and to the novel (Flaubert, Hugo again) of the nineteenth century." "For the record, The King of the Mountains was published the same year as a certain Madame Bovary or that "The Flowers of Evil, the two literary monuments and scandals of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven." (lacauselitteraire.fr/le-roi-des-montagnes-edmond-about).

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Publisher: Hachette and Co

Year: 1861

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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