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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 political...

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

See Also:

• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Character Profiles)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Literary Places)
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Les Misérables (Masterplots Classics)
• Les Misérables (Character Profiles)
• Les Misérables (Literary Places)
• Les Misérables (Magill Book Reviews)
• Poetry of Hugo, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Toilers of the Sea, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Toilers of the Sea, The (Character Profiles)
• Toilers of the Sea, The (Literary Places)
• French Long Fiction to the 1850’s (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)