1861, Tou Koutrouli o Gamos, Alexandros Rizos Rangavis , First Edition

Alexandros Rizos Rangavis (1809 – 1892), was a Greek man of letters, poet and statesman. He was the chief representative of a school of literary men, known as the First Athenian School, whose object was to restore as far as possible the ancient classical language. He was also a founding member of the Archaeological Society of Athens.

About the book: Manolis Koutroulis is a tailor in Syra in 1845. He falls in love and asks for Anthousa, the daughter of an Athenian middle-class family. She, however, loves someone else and, wanting to avoid marriage, makes it a condition that Koutroulis becomes a minister…