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

Victor Hugo Victor Hugo, the most talented of rhetoricians!

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

Hugo, Victor, 14, 15, 52, 64, 116, 118, 135, 140;    Cromwell, 64;    Hernani, 14, 140;    Marion Delorme, 14, 116;    Ruy Blas, 52.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Hugo, Victor, Les Mis�rables, 1, 263; La L�gende des Si�cles, 2, 63; mentioned, 1, 90, 2, 51.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

Hugo, Victor, xvi, xxiii, 25, 26, 50, 112, 145, 149;  Les Misérables, 26;  Notre Dame de Paris, 112, 145, 149, 173.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

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