The books on this page are mainly reprints of older translations of classics, for books that were out of print on the English-language book market for a very long time...
Victor Hugo
Three novels translated
into English...
Ninety-Three ('93)
By Victor Hugo.
312 pages. ISBN 9781595690920.
Historical Novel: 1793, during the French revolution: "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. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Bug-Jargal
By Victor Hugo
140 pages. ISBN 9781595690951.
A Novel: It describes 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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The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit)
By Victor Hugo.
568 pages. ISBN 9781595690135.
A Historical Novel: Nothing could be more happily imagined. than the adventures of Gwynplaine, the itinerant mountebank, snatched suddenly out of his little way of life, and installed without preparation as one of the hereditary legislators of a great country. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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