Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
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Category : French essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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The Works of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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By Order of the King
Author: Victor HugoWorks of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780681410565
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226359816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Although best known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet—one of the most important and prolific in French history. Despite his renown, however, there are few comprehensive collections of his verse available and even fewer translated editions. Translators E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have collected Victor Hugo's essential verse into a single, bilingual volume that showcases all the facets of Hugo's oeuvre, including intimate love poems, satires against the political establishment, serene meditations, religious verse, and narrative poems illustrating his mastery of the art of storytelling and his abiding concern for the social issues of his time. More than half of this volume's eight thousand lines of verse appear here for the first time in English, providing readers with a new perspective on each of the fascinating periods of Hugo's career and aspects of his style. Introductions to each section guide the reader through the stages of Hugo's writing, while notes on individual poems provide information not found in even the most detailed French-language editions. Illustrated with Hugo's own paintings and drawings, this lucid translation—available on the eve of Hugo's bicentenary—pays homage to this towering figure of nineteenth-century literature by capturing the energy of his poetry, the drama and satirical force of his language, and the visionary beauty of his writing as a whole.
Victor Hugo
Author: Graham RobbPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393318999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
"Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography".--"Washington Square Press". of photos.
So this Then is The Battle of Waterloo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Dramatic Works of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
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Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Les Misérables
Author: Victor HugoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon-five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts-is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passport marks him as a former convict. He sleeps on the street, angry and bitter.Digne's benevolent Bishop Myriel gives him shelter. At night, Valjean runs off with Myriel's silverware. When the police capture Valjean, Myriel pretends that he has given the silverware to Valjean and presses him to take two silver candlesticks as well, as if he had forgotten to take them. The police accept his explanation and leave. Myriel tells Valjean that his life has been spared for God, and that he should use money from the silver candlesticks to make an honest man of himself.
Best of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher: CSA Word
ISBN: 9781904605829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
This boxed set, with two novels by Victor Hugo, contains 'Les Miserables' read by Michael Jayston and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' read by Andrew Sachs.
Victor Hugo, Romancier de L'Abime
Author: James Andrew HiddlestonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
For a long time Victor Hugo's novels attracted little critical attention in spite of their obvious power and uniqueness. The eleven essays in this volume bring together various critical approaches from eminent French, British and American scholars, to provide a new point of departure and to provoke new discussion about this subject.