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Robb, Graham, 1958-

Victor Hugo / Graham Robb.

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1997.

xix, 682 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

In this biography of the great Victor Hugo, "by grasping the giant in his entirety, and in his many disguises, Robb rewards us with a panorama of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.

Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-650) and indexes.

A sabre in the night (1802-1803) -- Secrets (1804-1810) -- The disasters of war (1811-1815) -- Metromania (1815-1818) -- "Passion" (1818-1820) -- The demon dwarf (1821-1824) -- Traitors (1824-1827) -- H (1828-1830) -- What the concierge saw (1831-1833) -- Olympio (1833-1839) -- 'Dark doors stand open in the invisible' (1839-1843) -- Criminal conversation (1843-1848) -- Mount Sinai and a pile of rubbish (1848-1851) -- Poetic injustice (1851-1852) -- Strange horizon (1852-1855) -- 'Hu! Go!' (1855-1861) -- 'Merde!' (1862) -- Salvage (1863-1868) -- Stations of the Cross (1868-1870) -- "L'Année Terrible" (1870-1871) -- "Because" (1871-1873) -- 'A man who thinks of something else' (1874-1878) -- 'To love is to act' (1878-1885) -- God (1885) -- Epilogue: Hugo after Hugo.

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