EXCLUSIVE AND UNPARALLELED COLLECTION OF THE WORLD'S BEST NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND POEMS!!! THE COMPLETE HARVARD CLASSICS LIBRARY - "THE SHELF OF FICTION" <ILLUSTRATED> Selected by Harvard University scholars and fully revised and updated for 2011 200 OF THE GREATEST WORKS EVER WRITTEN... (learn more about this book)
Five Classic Horror Tales (learn more about this book)
Description: 4 v. : col. Ill. ; in container 13 cm. Subjects: Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) --Fiction. Contents: v. 1. Such a busy city -- v. 2. Quasimodo's bell tower -- v. 3. At the festival -- v. 4. Paris pals. "Little Library". (learn more about this book)
Hardcover: 287 pages
Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association; First Edition edition (1966 (learn more about this book)
Remarkable for its bold characterization, color, atmosphere, and a plot unsurpassed for superb drama, this memorable opera, which first premiered in 1851, tells the story of a despised hunchback and his beloved daughter—the first instance in which the figure of the tragic jester was used in... (learn more about this book)
Published near the end of his exile from France, Victor Hugo's 'The Man Who Laughs' is an intricately woven tale that threads together the realms of royalty and freedom, of love and sex, of loneliness and friendship, of abandonment and rediscovery, and stitches them into a spellbinding tale of... (learn more about this book)
In 1855, fleeing political persecution, Victor Hugo found sanctuary on the Isle of Guernsey, among the most historic and picturesque of the Channel Islands. The legends and lore of the islands sparked Hugo's imagination, resulting in one of his most unusual works. Setting mythical, romantic, and... (learn more about this book)
An ex-convict struggles for redemption in the punishing world of post-Napoleonic France. Described as the bible of the poor, downtrodden, heartbroken, convicted, and oppressed. (learn more about this book)
Victor Hugo's romantic melodrama Ruy Blas was first performed in 1838 for the opening of the Theatre de la Renaissance. There was a revival at the Odeon with Sarah Bernhardt in 1872, and at the Theatre-Francais in 1879. Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and the most... (learn more about this book)