Author: Graham Robb Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Award winners, Non Fiction, History Culture: France
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ISBNs: 9780393045789 0393045781 |
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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.
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