Victor Hugo
A Biography
by Graham Robb
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9780393045789,
Hardcover,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1998
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Publisher Notes
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.
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"Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy, well aware of his subject's numerous flaws (lack of humor, complacent megalomania). Though sometimes a little too colorful, Robb's own lively prose can be neatly wry....[T]his is, unquestionably, a magnificent biography, filled with grand exploits, terrible deaths and occasional comedy."
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