Many books are turned into movies and TV shows. Some of them are turned into musicals, and that's the case for Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables.' ...
Los Angeles Times: Victor Hugo’s rarely seen art is as intimate and innovative as his famous books
When the French writer Victor Hugo died in 1885, nearly 2 million people joined his funeral procession in Paris. The poet, novelist and dramatist had written some of the most revered books of all time ...
Victor Hugo’s rarely seen art is as intimate and innovative as his famous books
With his vivid imagination, profound insights, and masterful storytelling, Victor Hugo is one of the greatest literary voices of all time. He has left an indelible mark on literature that transcends ...
The most famous and revealing scenes in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables get underway fairly late in the novel—on page 1,280 in the Pléiade edition—at the moment when the physically powerful Jean Valjean ...
This year, Davis High School's spring musical will be a production of the French author Victor Hugo's classic novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." ...
Architectural Digest: Inside Hauteville House, the Victor Hugo–designed Home Where the Author Lived in Exile
In his literary masterpiece Notre-Dame de Paris, French author Victor Hugo mused that architecture is “thought written in stone.” And this is also the perfect way to describe Hauteville House, his ...
Inside Hauteville House, the Victor Hugo–designed Home Where the Author Lived in Exile
OLYMPIO: THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO 540 pp.) — Andre Mourois — Harper $5.95). In 1822, France was not quite ready for Romanticism. When a British company came over with Othello, the pit howled: “Down ...