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Victor Hugo and His Times

Victor Hugo and His Times

Alfred Barbou

This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages, and is generally considered to be the best life of Victor Hugo.
The Works of Victor Hugo

The Works of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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
Les misérables

Les misérables

Victor Hugo

This expansive French tale of injustice and social unrest is widely considered to be writer Victor Hugo's masterpiece.
Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Brombert

Analyzes the major themes and motifs in Hugo's novels, describes his poetic and moral vision, and assesses his accomplishments as a writer
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Victor Hugo

Inhis 1859 preface, Hugo had indicated that The Legendof tke Ages was to be completed by two other poems: The End of Satan, which was to be the " dénouement" of the Legend, and God, which was to be its "crown." Both poems were ...
Victor Hugo: A Biography

Victor Hugo: A Biography

Graham Robb

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, ...
The Essential Victor Hugo

The Essential Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Mis--eacute--;rables, 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.
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The anonymous Mémoires de Madame Ludovica (Douglas Siler, ed., Flaubert et Louise Pradier: Le Texte intégral des ... The most complete information on Laure Krafft is to be found in Jean Savant, La Vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo, ...
Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Volume Nineteen of The Works of Victor Hugo features "William Shakespeare."
A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

John Andrew Frey

This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his life and literature. The volume begins with a biography that places Hugo within the context of 19th-century France.
La vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo: Léonie d'Aunet : Madame ...

La vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo: Léonie d'Aunet : Madame ...

Jean Savant

1885 - COLLECTION DU CENTENAIRE - 1985 JEAN SAVANT La Vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo * * * LÉONIE D'AUNET * * DU SCANDALE AU COUP D'ETAT & A L'AGONIE C'est un métier vieux comme le monde que celui de séducteur.
Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

William VanderWolk

This book, examining these two works and the nonfictional Napoleon le petit, argues that through such texts Hugo can be seen as an important historian of his time, a polemicist and prophet whose version of past events and vision of the ...
Things Seen and Essays

Things Seen and Essays

Victor Hugo

Volume Fourteen of The Works of Victor Hugo features "Things Seen" and "Essays."
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The affair began probably in 1844 with a woman named Leonie Biard (nee d' Aunet)70 who was married to an academic and fashionable painter of about the same age as Hugo. She had moved into the luxurious residence of the wealthy ...
Seduction

Seduction

M. J. Rose

A hauntingly suspenseful novel about a grieving woman who discovers the long-lost letters of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries.
Les Miserables Volume One

Les Miserables Volume One

Victor Hugo

The nineteenth-century Frenchman's epic work depicts the life of Jean Valjean, a reformed convict who has dedicated his life to helping others.
Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Jarrod Meistle

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair Look for other books in this series Victor the Vampire Victor the Vampire and the Bully Coming Soon Victor the Vampire and Albert’s Allergies Visit Victor on his website www.VictortheVampire ...
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

From such an enlarged conception of the subject this book has sprung. This great work does not depend for its value upon the accuracy of its statements of fact, nor even, upon the light it throws upon the life and genius of Shakespeare.
Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Madame Duclaux

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Fundamental Behavior

Fundamental Behavior

Hank Manley

he called. “It's Victor Torres. Who is with you at this position?” “Victor Torres?” the guard repeated. “That's impossible. Victor Torres is in prison in the United States. ” “Who is the other guard?” Victor asked again as he halted his advance five ...
Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France

Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France

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HENRY LESLIE MAPLE : Claude Tlllier. Llterature and Politles in a Frencb Prorince (J. BRUNEAU). 555. — HONORÉ DE BALZAC : Hue Ténébreuse An- aire, éd. MARCEL BOUTERON (J. P.). 556. — VICTOR HUGO : Ouatrevingt- Trelie, éd.
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les ...

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les ...

David Bellos

Packed full of information about the book’s origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a ...
100 Must-read Historical Novels

100 Must-read Historical Novels

Nick Rennison

A brilliant guide to 100 of the finest historical novels ever published from Victor Hugo to Sarah Waters.

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