Pagine1802–1885 · Besançon, France · also known as Hugo
Victor Hugo was France’s great Romantic poet, playwright and novelist — and a fierce campaigner against poverty and the death penalty. Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; in English, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) helped save the cathedral itself from neglect. After opposing Napoleon III he lived nearly twenty years in exile on the Channel Islands, where he finished Les Misérables (1862), the story of the ex-convict Jean Valjean. When he died, some two million people followed his funeral to the Panthéon.
Begin with The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
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Victor Hugo was France’s great Romantic poet, playwright and novelist — and a fierce campaigner against poverty and the death penalty. Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; in English, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) helped save the cathedral itself from neglect.
Les Misérables is usually considered Victor Hugo’s best-known work, followed by The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Toilers of the Sea.
Most readers start with The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 2 of Victor Hugo’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.