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Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .
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The Man Who Laughs; Volume I, Victor Hugo
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2022
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Victor Hugo
- Éditeur
- LEGARE STREET PR
- Publié
- 2022
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN13
- 9781015908475
- Séries
- L'Homme qui rit
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans historiques, Classiques, France, Angleterre, Littérature française, Adapté au cinéma, XVIIIe siècle, 17e siècle, Enlèvements d'enfants, 17e-18e siècle
- Première publication
- 1869
- Titre original
- ĽHomme qui rit
- Évaluation
- 4,3 sur 5
- Description
- Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .