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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870, after the proclamation of the Third Republic.
Notre-Dame de Paris
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Toilers of the Sea
Selected Poems
Les Miserables
Notre-Dame de Paris

Books

Notre-Dame de Paris
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Toilers of the Sea
Selected Poems
Les Miserables
Notre-Dame de Paris