HUGO - Libros y biografía

'Notre-Dame de Paris', also known as 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' is the best-known novel of French romanticist Victor Hugo. The story about the gypsy Esmeralda, who captures the hearts of Captain Phoebus,...

Ruy Blas has held the stage better than any other of his dramas and has been popular in America. Here Hugo's dramatic theory of contrast of grave and gay, rapid alternation of tragic and grotesque, is...

Le roi s'amuse, best translated as 'The King Amuses Himself', is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play...

'Mary Tudor' is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1833. The historical work portrays the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I. of England....

In 1838 Hugo began a play entitled Les Jumeaux (The Twins), but halfway through the third act he relinquished it, and the drama remained unfinished. It was finally published in 1889, as a fragment, after...

'Angelo, Tyrant of Padua' is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1835. The historical work portrays the chief magistrate of the Italian city Padua, Angelo.

The story is a dramatic episode of the revolt of the blacks of St. Domingo in 1791. Bug-Jargal, the hero, is a negro, a slave in the household of a planter. He is secretly in love with his master's daughter,...

“On The Law of War and Peace” was translated into many languages, and most law schools adopted it as the basis of the right of nations. Princes and statesmen consulted the book, and just as Alexander...

'Lucrezia Borgia' is a drama by Victor Hugo. The French writer finished it in 1833. The historical work portrays the Renaissance-era Italian aristocrat Lucrezia Borgia. The libretto of Donizetti's opera...

Since the awful times in which Monk Lewis used to chill the blood of the reading public, and revived in persons of mature age the terrors' of infancy, there was hardly a romance so horrible, and, at the...

'Oliver Cromwell' was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo's gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's...

The drama 'Hernani' tells the story of Doña Sol, the sun of Madrid, who is loved by Don Carlos, king of Spain, by the old duke, Ruy Gomez, and by Hernani, leader of the revolutionists, upon whose head...

In Victor Hugo's 'Mary Tudor,' the reader is transported back to the tumultuous time of Mary I of England's rule. The book delves into the psychological complexities of the queen known for her harsh treatment...

A fisherman encounters all the fury, and caprice, and treachery of outer nature in order to win a woman whom on his return he finds to have unconsciously but irrevocably lost her heart to another. But...

Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering;...

In Hugo Münsterberg's seminal work, 'Psychology and Social Sanity', he delves into the intricate relationship between psychological principles and societal behaviors. Written in a scholarly and detailed...

Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering;...

SOMOS TODOS FILHOS DE MARIA. Nunca estivemos tão sozinhos, no século XXI é fácil se sentir pressionado pelos padrões de vida propagados pelas redes sociais, angustiados com a instabilidade da sociedade...

In 'Napoleon the Little' by Victor Hugo, the reader is taken on a satirical journey through the rise and fall of a fictional French dictator, drawing parallels to the real-life Napoleon III. Written in...

Les Misérables is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several...

Victor Hugo's 'Ninety-Three' is a gripping historical novel set during the French Revolution, capturing the violent upheaval of the time with intricate detail and vivid imagery. The book skillfully weaves...

The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks is a synthesis of what was known in the late nineteenth century about the daily lives of ancient Greeks. Before this book, most of the works on Greece were related...

Garda Pat Coyne - aka 'Mr Suicide' is back. Injured in the line of duty, he is now out of work with too much time on his hands. Living alone, he's become more obsessive and volatile, developing a fetish...

Pat Coyne is a Dublin policeman who is passionately devoted to sorting out the world and its problems. For Coyne, such things as cars, crime, pollution and golf are all ominous signs of a disintegrating...

Esmeralda is a beautiful gypsy woman who captures the heart of many men including Quasimodo, the titular hunchback who lives in secret at Notre Dame. Saved by Esmeralda’s kindness, Quasimodo falls in...

Oeuvre immense, joyau du patrimoine littéraire national, riche en figures assimilées par notre imaginaire ou notre langue, c'est roman touffu mais d'une lecture aisée, populaire mais déroutant, qu'il...

À la bataille de Waterloo, Thénardier avait détroussé le colonel baron Pontmercy, tout en lui portant secours. Nous sommes en 1823. Jean Valjean a été repris et renvoyé au bagne. Il s'évade de nouveau,...

En 1832, Jean Valjean habite, avec Cosette, rue Plumet, Thénardier est en prison, sa fille Éponine, amoureuse de Marius, aide pourtant le jeune homme à retrouver la trace d'une jeune fille rencontrée...

En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il écrirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures décrivant les péripéties de Léopold d'Auvernay, jeune...

Soulevé, le peuple de Paris est symbolisé par les combattants de la barricade. Jean Valjean s'est vu confier la garde de l'inspecteur Javert, arrêté par les insurgés. Il feint de l'exécuter mais le libère,...