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The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo
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The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. Is starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781603122368 |
Publishers | Aegypan |
Pages | 520 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 29 mm · 752 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Joseph L. Blamire |
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