
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 g...
Paperback: 520 pages
Publisher: Aegypan (May 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781603122368
ISBN-13: 978-1603122368
ASIN: 1603122362
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 14198120
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Victor Hugo is one of my favorite authors. His characters are always more complex than they appear to be on the surface. Gwynplaine, Dea, Ursus, and Homo represent different aspects of ourselves as well as society. The juxtaposition of these characte...
ng 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 . . .