THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Volume I

ISBN-13: 9781421846842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 676 str.

Alexandre Dumas;1st World Library

Opis

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Gardesignalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau dIf, goton board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jeanwere covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a shipto come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has beenbuilt, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an ownerof the city.The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanicshock has made between the Calasareigne.....