

It is with a very bitter irony that the paper, on which all this depends, is left to float for years at the will of wind and tide.

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. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. The constructive ingenuity exhibited throughout is almost morbid. Grosset & Dunlap (USA) Height 7 9/16 (1869) 1928 Universal photoplay edition starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt Item. Victor Marie Hugo (/hjuo/ French: vikt mai yo 26 February 1802 ) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. it will be seen that, here again, the story is admirably adapted to the moral. In 1855 he began a 15-year-long exile on the island of Guernsey, where he completed, among others, his longest and most famous work, Les Miserables (1862), and also The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit 1869), also known as By Order of the King, a historic novel with fictional characters, set in England 1688-1705. VICTOR HUGO'S long and chequered life (1802-85) was filled with experiences of the most diverse character - literature and politics, the court and the street, parliament and the theatre, labour, struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs.
