The next volume of “Masters of Adventure” introduces modern readers to the amazing French writer Edmond Abou. This master of words and the grotesque, deftly fencing with the sharp pen of Voltaire and the jester's cap of Moliere, made a lot of noise in the turbulent 19th century and, at the end of his rather short life, managed to become an academician. Finally, for the first time in Russian, two of his most famous novels, two masterpieces, are being published: “King of the Mountains” - a tragicomic story of a two-legged wolf with wet eyes, playing creepy cat and mouse with his victims; The Man with the Broken Ear is the fantastic adventures of Napoleon's mummy spy wandering through the twilight of the Second Empire. The book is decorated with more than two hundred illustrations by Gustave Doré and Eugene Courbuin. Sign of information products 16+