The Story
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Victor Hugo — leader of the Romantic movement, revolutionary playwright, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, political exile, painter, visionary who claimed conversations with Shakespeare, Virgil and Christ — dominated and maddened his contemporaries for more than sixty years. Graham Robb's Whitbread Biography Award-winning life does full justice to what he calls "the most lucid case of madness in literature," grasping Hugo in his every disguise and rewarding readers with a panorama of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the twentieth century. The New York Times Book Review called it "both necessary and highly readable" and a work that "easily outclasses all existing Hugo biographies in English." Lively, argumentative, and unafraid of its subject's contradictions, it is the definitive portrait of the giant of the nineteenth century.
Author: Graham Robb
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 500
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Victor Hugo — leader of the Romantic movement, revolutionary playwright, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, political exile, painter, visionary who claimed conversations with Shakespeare, Virgil and Christ — dominated and maddened his contemporaries for more than sixty years. Graham Robb's Whitbread Biography Award-winning life does full justice to what he calls "the most lucid case of madness in literature," grasping Hugo in his every disguise and rewarding readers with a panorama of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the twentieth century. The New York Times Book Review called it "both necessary and highly readable" and a work that "easily outclasses all existing Hugo biographies in English." Lively, argumentative, and unafraid of its subject's contradictions, it is the definitive portrait of the giant of the nineteenth century.
Author: Graham Robb
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 500
