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

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

Hugo, Victor
Blamire, Joseph L.

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 160312814X
ISBN13: 9781603128148
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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. It 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 . . .

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