The Complete Works of Victor Hugo. Illustrated

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a
literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of
genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of
all time. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
(1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry
collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende
des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the
Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of
his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death,
including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame
de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned
for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. CONTENTS: The
Novels BUG-JARGAL HANS OF ICELAND THE LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED MAN THE
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME THE MAN WHO LAUGHS NINETY-THREE The Poetry POEMS IN
TRANSLATION The Plays CROMWELL THE BURGRAVES Selected Non-Fiction NAPOLEON THE
LITTLE THE HISTORY OF A CRIME