The Man Who Laughs
- Author: Victor Hugo
- Collection: "Peaks" Collection
- Year: 31-10-2016
- Translator from French: Erma Gecheva
- Availability: In Stock
- Product Code: 1808-01
- SKU: 24.0025
- ISBN: 978-619-152-939-1
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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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Tags: Classics, Adventure Novels
Specification | |
Year | 31-10-2016 |
Translator | from French: Erma Gecheva |
Pages | 552 |
Size | 170/240 мм |
Weight | 0.65 kg |
Collection | Колекция "Върхове" |
Cover Type | Hardcover |
Genre | Classics, Adventure Novels |