Victor Hugo
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Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 509
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Toilers of the Sea (1866) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, Toilers of the Sea is a story of adventure that expresses the everyday struggles of a fool in love while capturing the changes wrought by political and economic revolution in Europe. "Gilliatt lived in the parish of St. Sampson. He was not liked by his neighbours; and there were reasons for that fact." Viewed as an outsider by the...
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Classiques de poche
Livre de poche volume 964, 966, 968
Garnier-Flammarion texte intégral ; 125-127
GF volume 125-127
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Livre de poche volume 964, 966, 968
Garnier-Flammarion texte intégral ; 125-127
GF volume 125-127
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"Peut-on imaginer un monde sans Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavroche, Javert ou Fantine, à jamais vivants au Panthéon de l'esprit humain? En 1862, paraissent Les Misérables, qui désignent toutes les victimes d'un ordre social dont Victor Hugo condamne les injustices. Immense épopée populaire, le roman est emporé dans l'air de Paris et de ses bas-fonds, l'odeur des barricades et de la Révolution. Il deviendra l'une des oeuvres les plus lues dans...
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First published in 1829 at the beginning of Victor Hugo's literary career, "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" is one of the author's first mature works of fiction. It recounts the thoughts of a condemned man as the day of his execution draws near. Inspired by the sight of an executioner preparing the guillotine for another scheduled public execution, Hugo quickly wrote this moving and eloquent work describing the condemned man's final thoughts as he...
5) Ninety-three
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Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. "The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was...
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Folio volume 3645
Garnier Flammarion. Texte intégral volume 134
Classiques Garnier
Garnier Flammarion. Texte intégral volume 441
Garnier Flammarion. Texte intégral volume 134
Classiques Garnier
Garnier Flammarion. Texte intégral volume 441
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Notre-Dame de Paris (titre complet : Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) est un roman historique de l'écrivain français Victor Hugo, publié en 1831. Les deux premiers livres (I et II) du roman suivent Pierre Gringoire, poète sans le sou. Gringoire est l'auteur d'un mystère qui doit être représenté le 6 janvier 1482 au Palais de justice en l'honneur d'une ambassade flamande. Le livre III évoque la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, son histoire et ses...
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Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. The sixth of January 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event, which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault...