Victor Hugo
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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.
Books
The tragedy of King Lear with related readings
King Lear by William Shakespeare On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again by John Keats Student Matinee, Stratford by Margaret Stinson Caporushes by Flora Annie Steel King Lear in Respite Care by Margaret Atwood Nothing Shall Come of Nothing by Mairi MacInnes Wise Enough to Play the Fool by Isaac Asimov Send in the Clowns by Goenawan Mohamad Refrain by Mary Jo Salter Goneril by Karel Capek I Dream of Lear by Jerry W, Ward, Jr, The Blind lxading the Blind by Lisel Mueller A Dog, a Horse, a Rat by A.S. Byatt The Happy Ending Kmg Lear by Nahum Tate Why Lear Must Die by Victor Hugo Cordelia by Anna Jameson Calm After Storm by Frank Yerby Why King Lear Is the Cruellest Play by Frank Kermode
Ecrits politiques
William Shakespeare
Cosette
Millions have shared the unforgettable story of the waif Cosette, adopted daughter of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Now the tale of Cosette continues in this sweeping, exhilarating epic that interweaves its own galaxy of characters and narrative with real events and historical figures. From dingy artists' cafes to brilliantly gaslit Parisian boulevards, from shadowy prisons to balls at the presidential palace, author Laura Kalpakian has crafted an epic reminiscent of Hugo's original but fueled by its own creative combustion.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Cromwell
From the Author's Note... To write the biography of Oliver Cromwell is admittedly an ambitious undertaking. In view of the wonderful wealth of material on the subject in existence, to say nothing of the living giants of seventeenth-century research who stalk the land, I hope it may not also seem presumptuous. My aim has however been a different one from that of the scholars from whose works I have derived such benefit. I have wished more simply to rescue the personality of Oliver Cromwell from the obscurity into which it seemed to me that it had fallen, just because there has been such an invaluable concentration on, the political and social trends of the age in which he lived. It is at least possible to claim that Cromwell was the greatest Englishman. In the hopes of explaining to the general reader something of this remarkable man, I have set about my task - as one historian put it to me, half in jest - of “humanizing” Oliver Cromwell.
Les contemplations
Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que ni m'attends. J'irai par la foret, j'irai par la montagne. Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps. Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées, Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit, Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées, Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit. Je ne regarderai ni l'or du soir qui tombe, Ni les voiles au loin descendant vers Harfleur, Et quand j'arriverai, je mettrai sur ta tombe, Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur. -- 4ème de couverture.
Han d'Islande
L'auteur de cet ouvrage, depuis le jour ou il en a ecrit la premiere page, jusqu'au jour ou il a pu tracer le bienheureux mot FIN au bas de la derniere, a ete le jouet de la plus ridicule illusion. S'etant imagine qu'une composition en quatre volumes valait la peine d'etre meditee, il a perdu son temps a chercher une idee fondamentale, a la developper bien ou mal dans un plan bon ou mauvais, a disposer des scenes, a combiner des effets, a etudier des moeurs de son mieux; en un mot, il a pris son ouvrage au serieux.
Bali sheng mu yuan =
Xiao shuo yi ji bu sai nu lang bei can de ai qing gu shi wei xian suo, sheng dong di jie lu le zong jiao de xu wei yu zui e, zan song le di ceng lao dong ren min de you xiu pin zhi he fan kang jing shen, zhan shi le fa guo she hui shan yu e, mei yu chou, ai qing yu su nian, min zhu yu zhuan zhi, pin qiong yu fu you de mao dun chong tu, ju you xian ming de fan feng jian, fan jiao hui de zhu ti si xiang.