Victor Hugo

One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine's daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary...

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 as a document of the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions....

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo (1899) is an autobiographical work by Victor Hugo. Assembled from diaries and manuscripts left behind by the author following his death in 1895, the Memoirs are as much a record of a life as they are a portrait of nineteenth century France. Told from the perspective of a supremely gifted artist whose command of language is matched only by his commitment to morality, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo is an invaluable text for scholars...

Une édition de référence des Misérables (III - Marius) de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Cependant, tandis que Marius attachait sur elle un regard étonné et douloureux, la jeune fille allait et venait dans la mansarde avec une audace de spectre. Elle se démenait sans se préoccuper de sa nudité. Par instants, sa chemise défaite et déchirée lui tombait presque à la ceinture. Elle remuait...

Une édition de référence du Dernier Jour d'un condamné de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Tout à coup l'un des valets m'a enlevé ma veste, et l'autre a pris mes deux mains qui pendaient, les a ramenées derrière mon dos, et j'ai senti les nœuds d'une corde se rouler lentement autour de mes poignets rapprochés. En même temps, l'autre détachait ma cravate. Ma chemise de batiste, seul...

The Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in England, a time of political unrest and class conflict in which he identified parallels to France of the 19th century. Although the novel was largely panned at the time, it has since been recognized as one of Hugo's greatest works. The Man Who Laughs has inspired over...

This volume contains a fantastic collection of poems written by Victor Hugo. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist, and poet belonging to the Romantic movement. He is widely hailed as one of the most accomplished and well-known French writers, originally achieving renown for his poetical endeavours-the most notable of which are the volumes "Les Contemplations" and "La Légende des siècles". Outside of his native country,...

The History of a Crime (1877) is a book-length essay by Victor Hugo. While Hugo is famous today for his status as a leading French poet and novelist of the nineteenth century, he was also a gifted historian and memoirist who served on the National Assembly of the Second Republic. Following the coup d'état of Napoleon III in 1851, Hugo was among the insurrectionists who revolted against military forces on the streets of Paris. Despite their efforts,...

Une édition de référence de Claude Gueux de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Voyez Claude Gueux. Cerveau bien fait, cœur bien fait, sans nul doute. Mais le sort le met dans une société si mal faite, qu'il finit par voler. La société le met dans une prison si mal faite, qu'il finit par tuer. Qui est réellement coupable? Est-ce lui? Est-ce nous? Questions sévères, questions poignantes,...

Dans cette pièce de théâtre de Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas est un valet amoureux de la reine d'Espagne. Lorsqu'il se voit confier la charge de premier ministre, il décide d'en profiter pour se venger des nobles qui ont toujours méprisé les gens de sa condition. Mais ses intentions sont contrariées par l'amour qu'il porte à la reine, qui elle-même est éprise du duc de Foix, un des nobles qu'il doit punir. Entre passion, ambition et complot, Ruy...