Victor Hugo: A Biography

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was also a radical political thinker and eventual exile from France; a gifted painter and architect; a visionary who conversed with Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ; in short, a tantalizing personality who dominated and maddened his contemporaries.

Author: Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/1999
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9780393318999
ISBN10: 0393318990
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical