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| Hugo beholds the world as if in the flashes of lightning and the pauses of the tempest. |
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| Victor Marie Hugo |
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| 1802–85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving “to be Chateaubriand or nothing.” The preface to his drama Cromwell (1827) placed him at the head of the romanticists; he remained the greatest exponent of the school and was considered by many the greatest poet of his day.… Hugo’s two greatest novels are Notre Dame de Paris (1831, tr. 1833) and Les Misérables (1862, tr. 1862), which are epic in scope and portray the sufferings of humanity with great compassion and power.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  hy ´g , ü-g´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Notre Dame de Paris
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XII.
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- Preface to Cromwell
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.
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- Hugo, Victor, 29234 to 29401
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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