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The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Literary

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Availability:In StockContributor:Victor Hugo, Joseph L. Blamire (Translator)Publish date:2007-04-01Pages:520
Language:EnglishPublisher:AegypanISBN-13:9781603128148ISBN-10:160312814XUPC:9781603128148Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, ClassicsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.31 inchesWeight:1.982Product ID:SCZ1B13A6Q

Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .

Language:EnglishPublisher:AegypanISBN-13:9781603128148ISBN-10:160312814XUPC:9781603128148Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, ClassicsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.31 inchesWeight:1.982Product ID:SCZ1B13A6Q
Hugo, Victor: - "Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862 and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment."
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