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The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

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Product Code:
1808-01
ISBN
978-619-152-939-1
SKU
24.0025
Year
31-10-2016
Translation
from French: Erma Gecheva
Pages
552
Size
170/240 мм
Weight
0.65 kg
Collection
Колекция "Върхове"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Classics, Adventure Novels

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Con…

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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...

Читател 11/01/2021

Прекрасни заглавия са включени в колекция "Върхове", която се надявам да продължава да нараства. Препоръчвам я на всеки! Иска ми се "Божествена комедия" и "Клетниците" също да бъдат част от нея.
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Георги Бойков 24/02/2020

Книгата е много добра,ако разпечатате и Клетниците ще бъде нещо уникално,не е издавана от 1988