Victor Hugo

Les Contemplations is a collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, published in 1856. It consists of 156 poems in six books. Most of the poems were written between 1841 and 1855, though the oldest date from 1830. Memory plays an important role in the collection, as Hugo was experimenting with the genre of autobiography in …

Ruy Blas is a tragic drama by Victor Hugo. It was the first play presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance and opened on November 8, 1838. Though considered by many to be Hugo’s best drama, the play initially met with only average success.

Hernani is a drama by the French romantic author Victor Hugo. The play opened in Paris on 25 February 1830. Today, it is more remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the première, and for being the inspiration of Verdi's opera Ernani, than it is for its own merits. Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow …

Kurjat on Victor Hugon kirjoittama romaani, joka ilmestyi vuonna 1862. Teos saavutti heti ilmestymisensä jälkeen suuren suosion. Tarina sijoittuu 1800-luvun alkupuolen Ranskaan ja seuraa monien henkilöiden yhteenkietoutuneita kohtaloita.

A critic in The Galaxy who admired Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (1869) and spoke with him about it called Hugo "a dreamer, a radical, a splendid, salient figure." It is one of his bitterest indictments of the cruelty and selfishness of society. Victor-Marie Hugo is known abroad for his novels, especially Les Miserables …

Kurjat on Victor Hugon kirjoittama romaani, joka ilmestyi vuonna 1862. Teos saavutti heti ilmestymisensä jälkeen suuren suosion. Tarina sijoittuu 1800-luvun alkupuolen Ranskaan ja seuraa monien henkilöiden yhteenkietoutuneita kohtaloita.

Ninety-Three is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. Published in 1874, shortly after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune, the novel concerns the Revolt in the Vendée and Chouannerie – the counter-revolutionary revolts in 1793 during the French Revolution. It is divided into three parts, but not …

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