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The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs – Victor Hugo “The Man Who Laughs” (“L’Homme qui Rit”) was called by its author “A Romance of English History,” and was written during the period Hugo spent in exile in Guernsey. Like “The Toilers of the Sea,” its immediate predecessor, the main theme of the story is human heroism, confronted […]
Les Misérables Volume 2
Les Misérables Volume 2 – Victor Hugo Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity […]
Les Misérables Volume 1
Les Misérables Volume 1 – Victor Hugo Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity […]
The Toilers of the Sea
The Toilers of the Sea – Victor Hugo A fisherman encounters all the fury, and caprice, and treachery of outer nature in order to win a woman whom on his return he finds to have unconsciously but irrevocably lost her heart to another. But this plainest of stories is worked into genuine tragedy by an […]
Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris – Victor Hugo ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, also known as ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ is the best-known novel of French romanticist Victor Hugo. The story about the gypsy Esmeralda, who captures the hearts of Captain Phoebus, Pierre Gringoire, the bell-ringer Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo is an all-time classic and a […]
Hans of Iceland
Hans of Iceland – Victor Hugo Since the awful times in which Monk Lewis used to chill the blood of the reading public, and revived in persons of mature age the terrors‘ of infancy, there was hardly a romance so horrible, and, at the same time, so well written, as Hans of Iceland. The author […]
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell – Victor Hugo ‘Oliver Cromwell’ was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo’s gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell’s internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as […]
Torquemada
Torquemada – Victor Hugo Torquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely original and unique: free and full of change as the wildest and loosest and roughest of dramatic structures ever flung together, and left […]
Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart – Victor Hugo In 1828 Victor Hugo had just completed Cromwell, and was about to write Manon de Lorme. Cromwell was not his first drama; several years earlier he had written one: Amy Robsart. Six years had passed, and M. Hugo had entirely forgotten his first play, when the younger of his two […]
The Burgraves
The Burgraves – Victor Hugo The fundamental conception of the drama “The Burgraves” is a dramatic struggle between two antithetical forces: fatality attempting to impose punishment on a degraded race and providence striving to pardon and to rehabilitate. The poet has embodied the force of fatality in an old slave named Guanhumara, a sorceress endowed […]