About this title: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Lgende des Sicles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the Englishspeaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misrables ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mondial
Date Published: 2005-02-28
ISBN-13:9781595690135ISBN:1595690131
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Blue Cloth 6" x 9"
Publisher: NBI, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: VG-, corners/spine ends a little worn, DJ Good 575 pp. DJ corners/spine ends worn, 1/2"-3/4" tears/chips on edges. head a little foxed, page ends soiled some, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1890
Description: Good-/No Jacket. Ex-Library 439 pages. Usual ex-library features. Pages are slightly darkened with age, otherwise the interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Navy blue cover with gold geometric design on front and spine is slightly worn at corners. Top and bottom of spine are slightly frayed. Faint library marks on spine. Volume One only. read more
Description: Good. 12mo. Cloth Hardcover, 1899. 439 pages [viii], with frontispiece bound in navy cloth decorated with gilt starburst pattern along spine and covers. Top edge gilded. The textblock is tight and square, and the pages are bright, clean and intact. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectable Books section at Better World Books. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Join the more than 2.8 million customers who have supported global literacy with their book purchases. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: H.M. Caldwell, New York
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Front hinge starting to break before the preface page-otherwise VG. Green cloth, gilt lettering. 2 v. in 1, [8] leaves of plates: ill.; 20 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Translation of: L'homme qui rit. read more
Edition: Limited/Numbered Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1888
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. #14 of Limited Edition of 150. Brown cloth, leather spine. Engraved frontispiece. Spine leather rubbed. JA2B. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York
Description: Very Good Undated. Duodecimo, soft leather with gilt titling to spine. Top edge gilt. 573pp. Burgundy leather is sunned to spine and is chipped to edges. Leather is split along fold to top edges. Internally clean and Vg. read more
Edition: Guernsey Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat
Date Published: 1920
Description: Francois Flemeng G. Rochegrosse. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No pub date indicates pre-1920. Guernsey Edition "Number 102 Limited to One Thousand Copies", as printed on the copyright p. The second volume of a fabulous novel where the man who laughs is a theatrical hit, this starts as a novel in itself, 374 p, deckle-edged. 5 plate illus from photo etchings of paintings by Francois Flemeng and G. Rochegrosse, covered with tissue. Stitched inner bdg. Green cloth BDG with gilt at the sp., 8" tall ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Norilana Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781934169001ISBN:1934169005
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mondial
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781595690135ISBN:1595690131
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dana Estes & Co, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1902
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Volume one of two preface dated 1869, early 1900's no publication date specified, blue cloth, title pastedown on spine, 356 pages, top edge gilt, 7 plates with tissue covers title of plate and artist printed on the tissue in red ink, limited to 1000 copies, this is #516. Light bumping and wear to spine ends and corners, light cover stains, spine pastedown is browned with light edge wear, text is toned, light hinge play, previous owner's bookplate inside front ... read more
Binding: Red Cloth
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo. 530pp Has several b&w illustrations from the photoplay of the movie. Pages are slightly browned all over, seem fragile but are unworn and complete. Binding is tight and spine slightly bent. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781603122368ISBN:1603122362
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781406568950ISBN:1406568953
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"I wanted to read a graphic story - this was a very short short version of the story. I doubt very much that someone reading this book without knowledge of the full story would be able to make much sense of it. Still, it was an interesting way to present it."
"I read this when I was still in high school, so it's been decades since I actually laid eyes on it. Wow, I am getting old.
Anyway, I read it mostly because the visual appearance of the Joker (of Batman fame) was based on Conrad Viedt's portrayal of Gwynplaine in the German silent film version of this book. Say that three times fast.
Gwynplaine, the main character, is purposely disfigured by a Gypsy tribe to make it look like he's always laughing. In time he is abandoned, and in his search for shelter he rescues a blind baby girl from her dead mother, and both in turn are rescued by a misanthropic mountebank with a pet wolf. It is in this outcast company that Gwynplaine seeks to find his place in the world.
As can be expected of Victor Hugo, he is very wordy, either going into extreme depths of backstory or philosophical detail that may bore many readers. However, on the positive side, as with all Victor Hugo, the mood, characters, and landscape are evocative of how the passion of love can rise above the unfathomable tragedy of mankind, even if only for a short while."
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