"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.

Una familia arruinada...Una mujer enferma condenada a muerte…Y una extraña propuesta de matrimonio.