Hugo, Victor

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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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Hugo, Victor

Thomas, “The Bridge of Sighs” quoted, 270.“House of the Seven Gables,” descriptions quoted from, 66.315 Hugo, Victor, his description of Waterloo quoted, 67.Huxley,

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

Hugo, Victor, remark on John Brown, 256; at the congress of gens de lettres, 413.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

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, and Bulwer Lytton, 65, 68, 70.

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

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