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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments. - Victor Hugo Attribution: Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Cromwell, preface (1827).

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Victor Hugo

Titles by Victor Hugo:

• Les Miserables
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

eNotes:

• Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
• Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
• Victor Hugo, one of Rand's influences (Atlas Shrugged)

Salem on History:

• Victor Hugo

Encyclopedia:

• Hugo, Victor (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hugo, Victor Marie (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Hugo, Victor (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)

Salem on Literature:

• Victor Hugo (Magill Book Reviews)
• Victor Hugo (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Victor Hugo (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Victor Hugo (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Victor Hugo (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Literary Criticism:

• Hugo, Victor (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Victor Hugo dies
• Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables
• Victor Hugo is born