36 results for '"Victor Hugo"'

La tradition veut qu’on soit progressiste à vingt ans et réactionnaire l’âge venant. Victor Hugo, qui décidément ne fait rien comme les autres, parcourt le chemin inverse. De 1847 à 1851, on assiste...

An unabridged, unaltered edition of Hugo's final work translated by Helen Dole, with all text and original illustrations -

Destiné aux élèves de 3e et 2de, propose un choix de textes dans le roman de V. Hugo sur la Révolution française, accompagné d'une étude et d'un dossier pour aborder l'étude d'un roman du XIXe siècle.

The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the...

A satirical depiction of the first forty years of Victor Hugo's life portrays him as a mediocre charlatan

Some of the greatest poets--Victor Hugo, Paul Claudel, George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, St.-John Perse--have also been public figures, but in the history of twentieth-century American poetry, Archibald...

This is an anthology containing 77 love poems from 48 French poets. Encompassing more than six centuries, the works range from No Marvel Is It by Bernhard de Ventadour to a complete translation of...

Moody, haunting and almost abstract, Hugo's drawings are a testament to his imagination and a touchstone for Romantics, Symbolists and Surrealists alikeNovelist, poet and politician Victor Hugo was a...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s...

Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in years, The Days of the French Revolution brings...

"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred ReviewAcclaimed historian Mary...

This volume includes major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks, through the Renaissance up to the late seventeenth century, compiled and edited for students of drama and theater. There are...

Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and...

A blend of literary history, memoir, and self-help that shows how French literature can bring humor, happiness, and romance to our livesLike many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a...

DISCOVER THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, WITH MORE THAN 85 MILLION COPIES SOLD—AND DON’T MISS DAN BROWN’S NEW THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS!“Blockbuster perfection . . . a gleefully...

A 2021 Newbery Honor BookA boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice.All light in Chattana is created by one man — the...

A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as...

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both...

A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive painters Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic...