Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802, in Besançon, France. A renowned French poet, novelist, and dramatist, he is celebrated as one of the leading figures of 19th-century French literature. Hugo's work often explores themes of justice, social inequality, and human rights, leaving a lasting impact on literature and society.
Personal Name: Victor Hugo
Birth: 26 February 1802
Death: 22 May 1885
Victor Hugo Books
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In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Trois especes de spectateurs composent ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler le public : premierement, les femmes ; deuxiemement, les penseurs ; troisiemement, la foule proprement dite. Ce que la foule demande presque exclusivement a l'oeuvre dramatique, c'est de l'action ; ce que les femmes y veulent avant tout, c'est de la passion ; ce qu'y cherchent plus specialement les penseurs, ce sont des caracteres.
"The Toilers of the Sea tells of the reclusive Guernsey fisherman Gilliatt, who salvages the engines of a wrecked ship by performing great feats of engineering, matching wits with sea and storm, and doing battle with a great sea monster - all to win the hand of a shipowner's daughter."--BOOK JACKET.
Fonction du poète, Regards jetés dans une mansarde, A un poète, Guitare, A une jeune femme, Tristesse d'Olympio, Écrit sur le tombeau d'un petit enfant au bord de la mer, Oceano Nox, A elle.
L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas permis a ceux autour desquels s'amassent incessamment calomnies, injures, haines, jalousies, sourdes menees, basses trahisons; hommes loyaux auxquels on fait une guerre deloyale; hommes devoues qui ne voudraient enfin que doter le pays d'une liberte de plus, celle de l'art, celle de l'intelligence; hommes laborieux qui poursuivent paisiblement leur oeuvre de conscience, en proie d'un cote a de viles machinations de censure et de police, en butte de l'autre, trop souvent, a l'ingratitude des esprits memes pour lesquels ils travaillent; ne leur est-il pas permis de retourner quelquefois la tete avec envie vers ceux qui sont tombes derriere eux et qui dorment dans le tombeau? Invideo, disait Luther dans le cimetiere de Worms, invideo, quia quiescunt.
Um clássico da literatura mundial, esta obra é uma poderosa denúncia a todos os tipos de injustiça humana. Narra a emocionante história de Jean Valjean ― o homem que, por ter roubado um pão, é condenado a dezenove anos de prisão. Os miseráveis é um livro inquietantemente religioso e político, com uma das narrativas mais envolventes já criadas.
Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love and tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this manga edition!
Die Geschichte einer zum Scheitern verurteilt Liebesbeziehung zwischen einem Glöckner und ein Zigeunermädchen.
Millions have shared the unforgettable story of the waif Cosette, adopted daughter of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Now the tale of Cosette continues in this sweeping, exhilarating epic that interweaves its own galaxy of characters and narrative with real events and historical figures.
From dingy artists' cafes to brilliantly gaslit Parisian boulevards, from shadowy prisons to balls at the presidential palace, author Laura Kalpakian has crafted an epic reminiscent of Hugo's original but fueled by its own creative combustion.
Claude Gueux was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction, and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables. The Les Miserables character Jean Valjean is loosely based on the life of Eugène François Vidocq, an ex-convict who became a successful businessman widely noted for his social engagement and philanthropy. It is believed Vidocq helped Hugo with the research for Claude Gueux.
In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
A tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
