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Victor Hugo
Contributor(s): Robb, Graham (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393318990     ISBN-13: 9780393318999
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $35.63  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 1999
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Annotation: "Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography".--"Washington Square Press". of photos.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (2.15 lbs) 720 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: 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
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Robb, Graham: - Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.
 
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