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Victor Hugo / Graham Robb.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PQ2293 .R54 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robb, Graham, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
- Hugo, Victor.
- Authors, French--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 682 pages, �16� pages of plates : illustrations, music, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1998, c1997.
- Summary:
- In a magnificent and magisterial biography that does full justice to the drama of Hugo's life, Robb fully reveals the writer whose books were such powerful social and political statements that he lived in exile from both England and France. By grasping the giant in his entirety and in his many disguises, Robb rewards readers with a panorama of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the 20th century. Photos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-650) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0393045781
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