Victor Hugo

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
ISBN: 9780393318999

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/23/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 46

About the Author
Robb, Graham: - Graham Robb is the author of several award-winning books on literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians, the city of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.