The Works Of Victor Hugo

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0265460395

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The Works of Victor Hugo (Classic Reprint) by Victor Hugo Pdf

Excerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply. He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappi ness upon the brow of the ancient church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 2912 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610420037

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The Works of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo Pdf

Victor Hugo is often regarded as one of the greatest French writers of all time. Best known today, for his classic novels "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Misérables," Hugo had several novels and stories regarded equally high, and they are collected here (along with all of his other classics). This collection includes: The History of a Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Napoleon the Little

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645171836

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Pdf

This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair. This epic novel helped spark a preservationist movement that led to the cathedral being restored to its full glory. Set in 1482, the story tells of how four men—the hunchbacked bell-ringer, Quasimodo; the archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo; the dashing soldier Phoebus de Chateaupers; and the poet Pierre Gringoire—vie for the love of Esmeralda, a young Romani woman. As the story unfolds, readers come to realize that the focus of the story is not only on the human characters but on the grand cathedral itself.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : France
ISBN : 0681410566

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Works of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo Pdf

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041988433

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Poems by Victor Hugo Pdf

Towards the close of the First French Revolution, Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, son of a joiner at Nancy, and an officer risen from the ranks in the Republican army, married Sophie Trébuchet, daughter of a Nantes fitter-out of privateers, a Vendean royalist and devotee. Victor Marie Hugo, their second son, was born on the 26th of February, 1802, at Besançon, France. Though a weakling, he was carried, with his boy-brothers, in the train of their father through the south of France, in pursuit of Fra Diavolo, the Italian brigand, and finally into Spain. Colonel Hugo had become General, and there, besides being governor over three provinces, was Lord High Steward at King Joseph's court, where his eldest son Abel was installed as page. The other two were educated for similar posts among hostile young Spaniards under stern priestly tutors in the Nobles' College at Madrid, a palace become a monastery. Upon the English advance to free Spain of the invaders, the general and Abel remained at bay, whilst the mother and children hastened to Paris.

Author : Albert W. Halsall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802043224

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Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama by Albert W. Halsall Pdf

In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot summary, and detailed analysis of all the dramas, from Cromwel and Torquemada to the juvenilia and the epic melodrama Les Burgraves.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191623264

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The Essential Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo Pdf

'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1942 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473531765

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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Pdf

Where there is love, there is hope. Accompanying a 6-part series on BBC One from the makers of War and Peace, and starring Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Olivia Coleman, this edition of Les Misérables also has a foreword from screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice). Les Misérables is Victor Hugo's classic tale of injustice, heroism and love following the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. Those attempts are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, this is a novel on an epic scale, moving from the Battle of Waterloo to the the June rebellion of 1832. With striking intensity and relevance to us today, it is testimony to the struggles of France's underclass.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822039212311

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The Literary Life and Poetical Works of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo Pdf

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1458 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143107569

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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Pdf

The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. The subject of the world’s longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki’s brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018791345

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The Works Of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo Pdf

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Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPA8P

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William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo Pdf

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434489043

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Hugo's Works by Victor Hugo Pdf

Volume Three of The Works of Victor Hugo features "Les Miserables: Fantine." With an introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Author : G. Barnett Smith
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Victor Hugo, His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith Pdf

CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. The glory of France touched its zenith at the period when our narrative opens. Europe virtually lay at the feet of Napoleon, who had risen to a height of authority and power which might well have satisfied the most vaulting ambition. Nations whose records extended back into the ages of antiquity trembled before him; and only one people, that of this sea-girt isle of Britain, declined to bend the knee to the all-conquering First Consul. Yet the philosophic mind, reflecting that the stability of a nation or a throne must be measured by its growth, must surely have distrusted the permanence of a grandeur and a greatness thus rapidly achieved. And speedily would such prevision have been justified, for in little more than one brief decade the sun of Napoleon set as suddenly as it arose. But while as yet the fame and the splendour of the conqueror were in their noonday, there was born at Besançon another child of genius, whose triumphs were to be won in a different and a nobler sphere. He was destined to touch, as with Ithuriel's spear, the sleeping spirit of French poesy, and to animate it with new life, vigour, and enthusiasm; he was to recall the divine muse from the drear region of classicism, and, by revivifying almost every branch of imaginative literature, he was himself to gain the triple crown of poet, romancist, and dramatist. And not alone for this was the child Victor Hugo to grow into manhood and venerable age. He was to become a great apostle of liberty, and as his life opened with the triumphs of the first Napoleon, so before its close he was destined to behold the last of that name pass away in the whirlwind, and France recover much of her prosperity and her power under the ægis of the Republic, of which the poet sang and for which he laboured.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513294247

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo Pdf

The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky as “absolutely the most real and truthful of everything that Hugo wrote,” The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a powerful story from an author who defined nineteenth century French literature. If you knew when and where you would die, how would you spend your final moments? For Hugo’s unnamed narrator, such an existential question is made reality. Sentenced to death for an unspecified crime, he reflects on his life as its last seconds wane in the shadows of a cramped prison cell. Recording his emotional state, observations, and conversations with a priest and fellow prisoner, the condemned man forces us to not only recognize his humanity, but question our own. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.