Victor Hugo: 803 books

« Cromwell » est une pièce de théâtre dramatique de Victor Hugo écrite en 1827. C’est la première œuvre connue du jeune Hugo, une pièce injouable, mais pourtant monumentale dans l’histoire du théâtre français, une pièce devenue célèbre pour sa préface, censée définir les grands principes du Romantisme tels que les conçoit Hugo.

"Before hearing my death sentence I was aware that my lungs breathed, that my heart beat, and that my body lived in the community of other men; now, I plainly saw that a barrier had sprung up between them and me. Nothing was the same as before." The imprisoned narrator of this profoundly moving novel...

“Under Sentence of Death - Or, a Criminal's Last Hours” is a fictional account of the trial and sentencing of a man that ultimately leads to his death. A thought-provoking insight to a criminal's last moments, “Under Sentence of Death” is not to be missed by fans of Hugo's work, and it would...

In 1838 Hugo began a play entitled Les Jumeaux (The Twins), but halfway through the third act he relinquished it, and the drama remained unfinished. It was finally published in 1889, as a fragment, after his death. The MS. was broken off with the words, "Interrompu le 28 Aout par la maladie ";...

Emprisonné pour avoir volé du pain, Claude Gueux finira condamné à mort après avoir tué à coup de hache le directeur de sa prison. Basé sur des faits réels, Claude Gueux est un court texte incisif et puissant dans lequel Hugo, cinq ans après la parution du réquisitoire abolitionniste Le Dernier...

For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with...

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La Légende des siècles est un recueil de poèmes de Victor Hugo, conçu comme une œuvre monumentale destinée à dépeindre l'histoire et l'évolution de l'Humanité. Écrits par intermittence entre 1855 et 1876, tant ses projets sont nombreux en ces années d'exil à Guernesey, les poèmes...

In den späten 1830er Jahren unternimmt Victor Hugo, längst als Verfasser des ‚Glöckner von Notre Dame’ und vieler Dramen berühmt, mehrere Reisen an den Rhein. Vom Paris der Restauration führt sein Weg über das Belgien der industriellen Revolution nach Aachen, Mittelpunkt des einstigen Frankenreichs,...

Hugo's political condemnation of Napoleon III. According to Wikipedia: ""Napoleon le Petit was an influential political pamphlet by Victor Hugo which condemned the reign of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Hugo lived in exile in Guernsey for most of Napoleon III's reign, and his criticism of the...

Victor Hugos Reise in die deutsche Romantik „Ich bin vor zehn Tagen in dieser Stadt angekommen, und ich kann mich nicht von ihr losreißen.“ Im Rahmen einer Rheinreise macht Victor Hugo im Herbst 1840 am Neckar Station. Mit Zeichenstift und Schreibfeder spürt er nicht nur den gängigen Sehenswürdigkeiten...

Les Miserables is the great epic masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century. Begun in 1845, the year Louis Philippe conferred a peerage and a lifetime seat in the Senate upon Victor Hugo, it was completed when the author was living in exile in the Channel Islands. Les Miserables is a product as well...

This carefully crafted ebook: " Les Miserables (Fully Illustrated Unabridged Hapgood Translation)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the...

Victor Hugo was a great French writer during the Romantic Movement in the nineteenth century.  Hugo was also an esteemed poet and his classic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are still among the most widely read books throughout the world.  This edition of Napoleon the Little includes a table of contents.