The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Literary - Victor Hugo - Books - Aegypan - 9781603128148 - April 1, 2007
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The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Literary

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The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Literary

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 . . .


520 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 1, 2007
ISBN13 9781603128148
Publishers Aegypan
Pages 520
Dimensions 231 × 158 × 37 mm   ·   898 g
Language English  
Translator Blamire, Joseph L

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