Victor Hugo
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After eight years away, Jean Valjean and Cosette, living under new identities attract the attention of their former innkeepers who are seeking money and revenge. With the help of an idealistic young man, the pair attempts to escape unscathed.
Despite their rough origins, Jean Valjean and Cosette have managed to create a peaceful life for themselves. Cosette has grown into a beautiful young woman and catches the eye of Marius. The two of them fall...
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Une édition de référence des Contemplations (Tome I - Autrefois) de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Debout, les bras croisés, le front levé, l'œil calme,
Il contemple, serein, l'idéal et le beau ;
Il rêve ; et , par moments, il secoue un flambeau
Qui, ses pieds, dans l'ombre, éblouissant la haine,
Claire tout à coup le fond de l'âme humaine ;
Ou, ministre, il prodigue et ses nuits...
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Marius and Cosette's union is strained by Valjean's sudden plan to leave the country and the growing tension between the disillusioned students and national government. The couple struggles to navigate the unstable social and political climate.
Following a close call with Inspector Javert, Jean Valjean plans to leave France for England. He informs Cosette, who is heartbroken, as she's still in love with Marius. The young man attempts to take her...
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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...
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Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by no one, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he blames for the death of his son. His revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a young nobleman who loves the daughter of a political prisoner that the former...
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"The Last Day of a Condemned Man" is one of Hugo's first mature works of fiction, written in 1829, and recounts the thoughts of a condemned man as he prepares for death. The short novel would later have profound influence on writers like Albert Camus, Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky. "Claude Gueux" is a short story, written in 1834. It contains Hugo's early thoughts on society injustice, which would be refined and fleshed out over the course...
88) Esmeralda
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This book contains Victor Hugo's 1869 play, "Esmeralda". It is based on Esméralda, a fictional character in Hugo's 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Hugo originally wrote "La Esmeralda" as an opera libretto and adaptation of "Notre Dame de Paris". However, there are notable differences between the two, the most obvious of which is the representation of the character Phoebus-in "La Esmeralda", he is noble and righteous, but in "Notre Dame...
89) Os Miseráveis
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Com a França do século XIX como pano de fundo, «Os Miseráveis» conta uma apaixonante história de sonhos desfeitos, de um amor não correspondido, paixão, sacrifício e redenção, num testemunho intemporal da sobrevivência do espírito humano.
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Em plena Idade Média, à sombra da catedral parisiense, a bela bailarina Esmeralda desperta paixões. Mendigos e vadios, o poeta Gringoire e o capitão dos guardas Febo rodeiam-na e admiram-na, e o temível arquidiácono Cláudio Frollo é levado ao crime. Suspeita e votada ao suplício, Esmeralda é salva pelo sineiro de Nossa Senhora de Paris, Quasímodo, que a protegerá e adorará ate que a morte os una.
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After Fantine's death, her daughter Cosette remains at the inn where she endures frequent abuse from the owners before the unexpected arrival of Jean Valjean. The duo unites and work to create a better life for themselves away from the city.
Following the events of Les Misérables Volume One: Fantine, Jean Valjean is once again on the wrong side of the law. After being sentenced to hard labor and eventually the death penalty, he barely escapes with...
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Une édition de référence des Misérables (II - Cosette) de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Vers cette époque donc, il y avait dans le couvent une personne mystérieuse qui n'était pas religieuse, qu'on traitait avec grand respect, et qu'on nommait madame Albertine. On ne savait rien d'elle sinon qu'elle était folle, et que dans le monde elle passait pour morte. Il y avait sous cette histoire,...
93) Claude Gueux
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Written by Victor Hugo in 1834, "Claude Gueux" is a short story considered to be an example of early 'true crime' fiction. Within it, Hugo presents his still-developing ideas concerning societal injustice three decades before he would imbue them into his seminal novel "Les Miserables". An exciting and thought-provoking tale, "Claude Gueux" constitutes a must-read for fans of Hugo's work. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist,...
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Les Misérables est un roman de Victor Hugo publié en 1862, l'un des plus vastes et des plus notables de la littérature française du XIXe siècle. C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine.
La préface résume clairement les intentions de l'auteur : « Tant que les trois problèmes du siècle, la dégradation de l'homme par le prolétariat,...
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This book contains the complete novels of Victor Hugo in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Hans of Iceland
- Bug-Jargal
- The Last Day of a Condemned Man
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- Claude Gueux
- Les Misérables
- Toilers of the Sea
- The Man Who Laughs
- Ninety-Three
96) Le Roi s'amuse
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Une édition de référence du Roi s'amuse de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Elle se retourne, voit le roi à ses genoux, et s'arrête, pétrifiée.
LE ROI, lui tendant les bras.
Je t'aime !
Achève ! achève ! — oh ! dis : je t'aime ! Ne crains rien.
Dans une telle bouche un tel mot va si bien !
BLANCHE, effrayée, cherche des yeux dame Bérarde qui a disparu.
Bérarde ! — Plus personne,...
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Victor Hugo's documentary historical novel is an impassioned chronicle of the December 1852 coup d'etat in France engineered by the French President, who called himself "Louis Napoleon." "History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness" offers a fascinating insight into mid nineteenth-century French history and is highly recommended for those with an interest in the subject. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist, and...
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A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. No more than 10,000 copies will be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.
It was one of those spring days which possesses so much sweetness and beauty, that all Paris turns out into the squares and promenades and celebrates them as though...
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Le premier roman de Victor Hugo en numérique.
Bug-Jargal est le premier roman de Victor Hugo.
Découvrez la première oeuvre d'un des plus grands écrivains de langue française.
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En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans ; il paria qu'il écrirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. Seize ans, c'est l'âge o l'on parie pour tout et o l'on improvise sur tout.
Ce livre a donc été écrit deux ans avant Han d'Islande. Et...
100) Claude Gueux: Roman
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Un court roman de Victor Hugo en numérique.
Claude Gueux est un court roman de Victor Hugo paru en 1834 et dénonçant les conditions de détention au xixe siècle, la disproportion des délits et des peines à cette même époque, ainsi que la peine de mort. L'histoire est en partie fondée sur des faits de sa connaissance.
Découvrez une oeuvre méconnue d'un des plus grands écrivains de langue française.
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Il y a sept ou huit ans,...