The Corsican Brothers
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940000746424 (0000746428)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Edition language: English
I don't know why I love stories about dueling so much. I guess it has something to do with the way the two parties have to fight. It's not even a "fight", it's a mind game designed to break the weakest man as soon as possible. It's endurance what the duel is about, not which of them is better. Wonde...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41881TRANSLATED BY HENRY FRITHOpening: N the beginning of March, 1841, I was travelling in Corsica.Nothing is more picturesque and more easy to accomplish than a journey in Corsica. You can embark at Toulon, in twenty hours you will be in Ajaccio, and then in twenty-f...