The Essential Victor Hugo

Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of Hugo's work are represented in a single volume. Famous scenes from Notre-Dame, Les Miserables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from Hugo's intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. The poems appear in bilingual form, and much of the material is appearing in English for the first time. - ;'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgus