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Length7h 1m
About this audiobook
"The King of the Mountains", a French humour classic by Edmond About, appeared in 1856, when he was twenty-eight.
The scene is laid in and near contemporary Athens. The story is an animated and delightfully humorous account of the adventures befalling two English ladies and a young German scientist, who are captured and held for ransom by the redoubtable Hadgi-Stavros, king of the brigands.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (282)
Includes LibraryThing, Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreHumor, General Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Hermann Schultz
66. The Escape
22. Photini
77. John Harris
33. Mary-Ann
88. The Court Ball
44. Hadgi-Stavros
99. Letter From Athens
55. The Gendarmes
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