This isn't a review of the book itself, but rather a sampler of its English translations. Since the ratio of English readers of Hugo to English translators of Hugo is perilously close to 1:1, I thought a quick taste test was in order, so I've whipped up this plateau d'amuse-gueules so that you ca...
إنها من تلك اللحظات التي تغلق فيها آخر صفحة من الكتابوتبقى ذاهلا مشدوها مما فيه ..!في البداية كنت أقضي خمس ساعات متفرقة في القراءةفقط لكي أنتهي، ثم أصبحت أقضي الساعات نفسها وزيادةرغبة في الاستمتاع وملاحقة سير الأحداث..قالت لي إحداهن: أنصحك بألا تضيعي وقتك في قراءة مثل هذا الهراءهذه الرواية لا تعد...
An age appropriate accounting of this fascinating story that uses concrete language to communicate the key plot points. There are some slight literary flourishes, though they are inconsistently done. Most notably, the book begins as if it is a letter written from Valjean to Cosette at the time of...
Even though Victor Hugo wrote a lot of novels, plays, essays, reviews, etc, etc, there are only three novels of his that are widely known. In order of widely-knownness, they are as follows. Les Miserables, Notre Dame de Paris, and The Toilers Of The Sea. I've read the first several times, of c...
More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in Penguin Classics. In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacke...
Woran erkennt man ein literarisches Meisterwerk? Zunächst natürlich an der Qualität von Stil und Inhalt. Ein einfacherer Indikator ist die Zahl der Umsetzungen, die das Werk erfahren hat. Je mehr, desto höher ist wahrscheinlich sein Stellenwert. Die Elenden von Victor Hugo hat da einiges aufzuwei...
Return to the magnificence of Notre Dame in Disney's all-new movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II - a fun, romantic adventure told with vibrant animation and music as soaring as its setting. Our matching folio includes 8 color pages of stunning artwork from the film, and easy piano arrangments o...
Youth is the season of prompt weldings and rapid cicatrisations. Marius, in Courfeyrac’s presence, breathed freely, a new thing for him. Courfeyrac asked him no questions. He did not even think of it. At that age, the countenance tells all at once. Speech is useless. There are some young men of w...
Esmeralda had not been heard from for a whole long month, which greatly grieved the Duke of Egypt and his friends the Vagrants; nor did any one know what had become of her goat, which redoubled Gringoire’s grief. One night the gipsy girl had disappeared, and since then had given no sign of ...
I was back at six o’clock with the money. Cosette was safe at home. Fabantou greeted me wearing my overcoat and smiling meekly. I put eighty francs on the table. “For your rent and other immediate needs, Monsieur Fabantou,” I said. “We will talk about what else you need.” “May God reward you, mos...