Montehomo, the Hawk's Claw, Chief of the Ever Victorious

[Zielinski]

Vladimir Shatsev:

> I am looking for the title of  a  presumably very well known novel of
> Thomas Mayne Reid . He was enormously popular in Russia . Volodya and his
> friend Checvetsin in Chekhov's  short story " The Boys"(1897) are very
fond
> of this writer.

Interestingly enough, the Nobel-prize Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz starts
his essay on Mayne Reid with the very same quote from Chekhov, if I remember
correctly.

Jan Zielinski

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