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See Also
- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Magill Book Reviews)
- Les Misérables (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Les Misérables (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Toilers of the Sea (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- French Long Fiction to the 1850's (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Les Misérables (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Toilers of the Sea (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Poetry of Hugo (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
- Staging and Production (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Dramatic Genres (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- French Drama Since the 1600's (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- French Poetry Since 1700 (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
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- Author: Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo, one of the titanic figures of nineteenth century literature, produced major works in every genre. He is among the greatest lyric poets in French literature; two of his many novels, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1833) and Les Misérables (1862; English translation, 1862), are classics of world literature; and his remaining works are prodigious in their variety and their ambition, ranging from literary criticism, biography, and philosophical reflection to impassioned polemics on social and...
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