The Literary Life and Poetical Works of Victor Hugo
Author | : Victor Hugo |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Victor Hugo |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Victor Hugo |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Victor Hugo |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1885 |
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Author | : Victor Hugo |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : G. Barnett Smith |
Publisher | : 谷月社 |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2015-12-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. The glory of France touched its zenith at the period when our narrative opens. Europe virtually lay at the feet of Napoleon, who had risen to a height of authority and power which might well have satisfied the most vaulting ambition. Nations whose records extended back into the ages of antiquity trembled before him; and only one people, that of this sea-girt isle of Britain, declined to bend the knee to the all-conquering First Consul. Yet the philosophic mind, reflecting that the stability of a nation or a throne must be measured by its growth, must surely have distrusted the permanence of a grandeur and a greatness thus rapidly achieved. And speedily would such prevision have been justified, for in little more than one brief decade the sun of Napoleon set as suddenly as it arose. But while as yet the fame and the splendour of the conqueror were in their noonday, there was born at Besançon another child of genius, whose triumphs were to be won in a different and a nobler sphere. He was destined to touch, as with Ithuriel's spear, the sleeping spirit of French poesy, and to animate it with new life, vigour, and enthusiasm; he was to recall the divine muse from the drear region of classicism, and, by revivifying almost every branch of imaginative literature, he was himself to gain the triple crown of poet, romancist, and dramatist. And not alone for this was the child Victor Hugo to grow into manhood and venerable age. He was to become a great apostle of liberty, and as his life opened with the triumphs of the first Napoleon, so before its close he was destined to behold the last of that name pass away in the whirlwind, and France recover much of her prosperity and her power under the ægis of the Republic, of which the poet sang and for which he laboured.
Author | : Victor Hugo |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2009-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191623261 |
'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.
Author | : George Barnett Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
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Author | : Graham Robb |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393318999 |
"Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography".--"Washington Square Press". of photos.
Author | : Sir Frank Thomas Marzials |
Publisher | : London : W. Scott |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
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Considered to be one of the most in-depth and well-written biographies of Victor Hugo, €Marzial's€Life of Victor Hugo€touches on his works, personal life, political beliefs and exile.
Author | : Victor Hugo |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752304103 |
Reproduction of the original: Poems by Victor Hugo