Hugo, Victor

Cultural  

1. A nineteenth-century French author and leader of romanticism. He wrote poetry, plays, and novels; among his novels are Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Example Sentences

Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables, one of the greatest novels of the world, but its digressions and its philosophy make it difficult reading for the young.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Hugo, Victor, 5, 108, 124, 152, 165, 204.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

Hugo, Victor, and Bulwer Lytton, 65, 68, 70.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

Hugo, Victor, 188, 189, 216, 229; Animism in, 189.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

Hugo, Victor, xii, xx, 23, 24, 48, 109, 141, 146; Les Miserables, 24; Notre Dame de Paris, 109, 141, 146, 168.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker