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Victor Hugo: The Man Who Laughs. aka By Order of the King (Novel)
(French title: L'Homme qui Rit)

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui Rit. Although among Hugo's more obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova. More...

 Victor Hugo: History of a Crime (Documentary Novel)
(French title: L'histoire d'un crime)

Anatole France’s novel The Gods are Athirst (1912)
tells the story of the painter Evariste Gamelin,
who developed into a fanatical Jacobin during
the French Revolution. More...

Victor Hugo: Bug-Jargal (Novel)

The friendship between the enslaved African prince Bug-Jargal and Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave revolt in Santo Domingo of August, 1791, that would eventually lead to the creation of the republic of Haiti in 1804. ...


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Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three (Novel)
(French title: 93)

Ninety-Three is a historical novel built upon
"a sort of enigma," which was at that date
(1793) laid before revolutionary France:
"Can a good action be a bad action? Does
not he who spares the wolf kill the sheep?"
This question meets with one answer after another during
the course of the book. More...

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