The essential Victor Hugo / new translations with an introduction and notes by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore.

By: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885Contributor(s): Blackmore, E. H | Blackmore, A. MMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press): Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xxxii, 543 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0192803638Uniform titles: Works. Selections. English. 2004 Subject(s): Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: 848.709 LOC classification: PQ2283 | .B55 2004
Contents:
A chronology of Victor Hugo -- The essential Victor Hugo -- Before the exile I : 1824-1843 -- The song of the circus -- To a traveller -- Zara bathing -- Preface from Cromwell -- Joanny -- from Journal of the ideas and opinions of a revolutionary of 1830 -- Notre-Dame -- An impartial peep at the magistrates of old -- Heard on the mountain -- 'Sometimes, beneath the clouds' deceptive twists ...' -- A ball at the Hotel de Ville -- 'O that I could fill your deep reverie ...' -- 'The rest of them drift any way at all ...' -- A popular man -- 'Indian caverns! tombs! monumental arrays ...' -- The shadow -- Therese's party -- For dust thou art -- Written on the plinth of an ancient bas-relief -- 'The child saw grandma busy spinning ...' -- 'Life, dear sir, is a comedy ...' -- Near Avranches -- Talleyrand -- Bayonne -- Before the exile II : 1843-1851 -- King Louis-Philippe -- Villemain -- A righteous man -- The fall -- The living pictures -- The princes -- Uttered in the shadows -- While looking at the heavens one evening -- 'At first, oh! I was like a maniac ...' -- 'While mariners, who estimate and doubt ... ' -- Veni, Vidi, Vixi -- 'Tomorrow, when the field grow light ...' -- At the academie francaise -- The death of Balzac -- Balzac's funeral -- Piux IX and Louis Bonaparte -- Proposed grant to Monsieur Bonaparte -- Postscript from The Whole Lyre -- During the exile : 1851-1870 -- Paris sleeps; the doorbell rings -- How dark the crime was -- Biography -- 5 April 1852 -- The littleness of the master -- Writing to France -- Charles II -- 'When, France, you are mere prostrate slaves ...' -- 'Night - dark night, deep, and full of drowsy things ...' -- Apotheosis -- The man has laughed -- The joint commissions -- The black hunter -- 'I was in Brussels; it was June ...' -- The last word -- The birds -- Unity -- Wayside pause -- 'I was reading. reading what? the timeless poem ...' -- The beggar -- Lowing of oxen -- Apparition -- Cerigo -- 'The poet's verse-form used to pillage April's basket ... ' -- The weather clears -- 'The soul dives in the chasm ...' -- Storm -- from The threshold of the abyss -- from The eagle -- 'What do you think of death, you vain philosopher? ...' -- 'The depths of the I am are swathed in cloud ...' -- The consecration of woman -- Boaz asleep -- Christ's first encounters with the tomb -- Connubial bliss -- 'Nature? she's amorous everywhere ...' -- From woman to heaven -- An alcove in the sunrise -- During all illness -- Waterloo -- Grandeur among the middle classes -- The house in the Rue Plumet -- Leviathan's intestine -- A turbulent life and a tranquil conscience -- The old old story of Utopia -- The story of Utopia, continued -- A quirk of Lethierry's character -- A contradiction -- Emily de Putron -- The death of Madame Victor Hugo -- After the exile I : 1870-1878 -- The return to France -- A prayer -- The vanished city -- Orpheus -- 'I knew Firdausi in Mysore, long since ...' -- After the Caudine Forks -- For Georges -- The immaculate conception revisited -- Jeanne asleep, iv -- Letter -- Waking impressions -- Hail, goddess, hail from one about to die -- 'Dante wrote two lines ...' -- The Rue Tiquetonne -- The emperor of Brazil -- The Hernani dinner -- After the exile II : 1878-1885 -- 'Suddenly the door opened ...' -- Last wishes -- Last line -- The structure of the Contemplations, The legend of the ages, and God.
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A chronology of Victor Hugo -- The essential Victor Hugo -- Before the exile I : 1824-1843 -- The song of the circus -- To a traveller -- Zara bathing -- Preface from Cromwell -- Joanny -- from Journal of the ideas and opinions of a revolutionary of 1830 -- Notre-Dame -- An impartial peep at the magistrates of old -- Heard on the mountain -- 'Sometimes, beneath the clouds' deceptive twists ...' -- A ball at the Hotel de Ville -- 'O that I could fill your deep reverie ...' -- 'The rest of them drift any way at all ...' -- A popular man -- 'Indian caverns! tombs! monumental arrays ...' -- The shadow -- Therese's party -- For dust thou art -- Written on the plinth of an ancient bas-relief -- 'The child saw grandma busy spinning ...' -- 'Life, dear sir, is a comedy ...' -- Near Avranches -- Talleyrand -- Bayonne -- Before the exile II : 1843-1851 -- King Louis-Philippe -- Villemain -- A righteous man -- The fall -- The living pictures -- The princes -- Uttered in the shadows -- While looking at the heavens one evening -- 'At first, oh! I was like a maniac ...' -- 'While mariners, who estimate and doubt ... ' -- Veni, Vidi, Vixi -- 'Tomorrow, when the field grow light ...' -- At the academie francaise -- The death of Balzac -- Balzac's funeral -- Piux IX and Louis Bonaparte -- Proposed grant to Monsieur Bonaparte -- Postscript from The Whole Lyre -- During the exile : 1851-1870 -- Paris sleeps; the doorbell rings -- How dark the crime was -- Biography -- 5 April 1852 -- The littleness of the master -- Writing to France -- Charles II -- 'When, France, you are mere prostrate slaves ...' -- 'Night - dark night, deep, and full of drowsy things ...' -- Apotheosis -- The man has laughed -- The joint commissions -- The black hunter -- 'I was in Brussels; it was June ...' -- The last word -- The birds -- Unity -- Wayside pause -- 'I was reading. reading what? the timeless poem ...' -- The beggar -- Lowing of oxen -- Apparition -- Cerigo -- 'The poet's verse-form used to pillage April's basket ... ' -- The weather clears -- 'The soul dives in the chasm ...' -- Storm -- from The threshold of the abyss -- from The eagle -- 'What do you think of death, you vain philosopher? ...' -- 'The depths of the I am are swathed in cloud ...' -- The consecration of woman -- Boaz asleep -- Christ's first encounters with the tomb -- Connubial bliss -- 'Nature? she's amorous everywhere ...' -- From woman to heaven -- An alcove in the sunrise -- During all illness -- Waterloo -- Grandeur among the middle classes -- The house in the Rue Plumet -- Leviathan's intestine -- A turbulent life and a tranquil conscience -- The old old story of Utopia -- The story of Utopia, continued -- A quirk of Lethierry's character -- A contradiction -- Emily de Putron -- The death of Madame Victor Hugo -- After the exile I : 1870-1878 -- The return to France -- A prayer -- The vanished city -- Orpheus -- 'I knew Firdausi in Mysore, long since ...' -- After the Caudine Forks -- For Georges -- The immaculate conception revisited -- Jeanne asleep, iv -- Letter -- Waking impressions -- Hail, goddess, hail from one about to die -- 'Dante wrote two lines ...' -- The Rue Tiquetonne -- The emperor of Brazil -- The Hernani dinner -- After the exile II : 1878-1885 -- 'Suddenly the door opened ...' -- Last wishes -- Last line -- App. The structure of the Contemplations, The legend of the ages, and God.

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