The Adventures of the Jack of Hearts; The Treasures of the Huguenots. Complete Editions with Notes

Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Vicomte (1829-1871) was one of the most popular French writers of the second half of the 19th century, the author of sensational novels that were published in unprecedented print runs and translated into many languages, including Russian. He gained his greatest fame with a series of adventure novels about Rocambole, a daring criminal, a member of a secret societ...