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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Victor Hugo
- First published
- 1864
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Hachette, J. Hetzel & Cie, Librairie internationale; [etc., etc.]
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780898753394
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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
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