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Victor Marie Hugo

Male : Poet, dramatist & Novelist. Headed the Romantic movement in France in early 19thC. Exiled to Jersey 1855-70 after opposing Louis Napoleon
Nationality : French Place of Birth : Besancon

Date of Birth : 1802 Date of Death : 1885 Age : 83

Education : Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
FICTION
Han D'Islande
(1823)
Hans of Iceland
(1825 J Robins) - Anon. George Cruikshank
Hans of Iceland, or The Demon Dwarf
(1845 Pierce)
The Demon Dwarf, or Hans of Iceland
(1847 J S Pratt)
Outlaw of Iceland
(1885 Ward & Downey)
Hans of Iceland
(1888 Ward Lock)
Han of Iceland
(1895 Nichols) - 2 vols. 1000 numbered
Hans of Iceland
(1897 Routledge)
The Outlaw of Iceland
(1899 Chatto & Windus)
The Outlaw of Iceland
(1912 Lotus Library)
The Outlaw of Iceland
(1928 Collins)

Bug-Jurgal
(1826)
The Slave King
(1833 Smith Elder)
The Nobal Rival, or The Prince of the Congo
(1845 Pierce)
The Slave King
(1846 Smith Elder)
The Slave King
(1852 T Hodgson)
Bug-Jargal
(1888 Whittaker)
Bug-Jargal
(1895 Nichols) - 1000 numbered
Bug Jargal
(1904 Frowde)
Bug Jargal
(1908 Murray)

Le Dernier Jour D'Un Condamne
(1829) & Claude Gueuex (1834)
The Last Days of a Condemned
(1840 Smith Elder)
Claude Gueux
(1865 Hardwick)
Under Sentence of Death
(1886 Ward Lock)
Last Days of a Condemned & Claude Gueux
(1900 Dent)
Last Days of a Condemned
(1907 New Universal Library)
Last Days of a Condemned Man
(1931 Readers Library)
Last Days of a Condemned Man & Other Prison Writings
(1992 OUP : World Classics)

Notre Dame de Paris
(1831)
Notre Dame : A Tale of the Ancien Regime
(1833 Effingham Wilson) - 3 vols
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1833 Bentley)
[Filmed in 1923, 1939, 1956 & 1996]
The Hunchback, or Bell-Ringer of Notre Dame
(1840 Allman & Daly, London)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1849 Bentley)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1865 Chapman & Hall)
Notre Dame, or the Bellringer of Paris
(1874 Routledge)
Notre Dame
(1888 Sampson Low) - 2 vols with colour plates
Notre Dame de Paris
(1900 Dent) - 4 vols
Notre Dame de Paris
(1902 Heinemann)
Notre Dame de Paris
(1910 Dent Everyman)
Notre Dame de Paris
(1928 Harrap) - Rowland Wheelwright
Notre Dame de Paris
(1930 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Frans Masereel. 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £280
Notre Dame de Paris
(1955 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Bernard Lamotte
Notre Dame de Paris
(1995 OUP World's Classics £6.99)

Les Miserables
(1862)
(1862 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols
(1862 Hurst & Blackett) - Large paper edition
(1864 Hurst & Blackett) - single vol ed. Millais
(1887 Routledge) - 2 vols
(1895 Paris) - 10 vols. 1000 numbered
(1900 Routledge)
(1900 Dent) - 10 vols
(1909 Dent Everyman) - 2 vols
(1934 JL Bodley Head)
[Filmed in 1935, 1952, 1958, 1995 & 1998]

Les Travailleurs de La Mer
(1866)
The Toilers of the Sea
(1866 Sampson Low) - 3 vols
The Workers of the Sea
(1866 Ward Lock)
The Toilers of the Sea
(1867 Sampson Low) - single vol. Gustave Dore
(1869 Sampson Low)
(1870 Sampson Low. Cheap Edition)
(1872 Sampson Low)
(1900 Dent) - 4 vols
(1911 Dent Everyman)
(1960 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Tranquillo Marangoni

L'Homme Qui Rit
(1869)
By Order of the King : A Romance of English History
(1871 Bradbury & Evans) - 3 vols
By Order of the King
(1871 Bradbury & Evans) - single vol ed
By the King's Command
(1875 Chatto & Windus)
By the King's Command
(1876 Ward Lock & Tyler)
By Order of the King
(1886 Routledge)
The Laughing Man
(1887 Routledge)
The Laughing Man
(1894 Routledge Caxton Novels)
The Laughing Man
(1908 Nelson Classics)
The Man Who Laughs
(1928 Readers Library)

Quatrevingt-Treize
(1874)
Ninety Three
(1874 Sampson Low) - 3 vols
(1875 Sampson Low) - single vol
(1886 Ward Lock)
(1895 Nichols) - 2 vols. 1000 numbered
(1908 Nelson Classics)

NON FICTION
Le Rhin
(1842)
Excursions Along the Banks of the Rhine
(1843 Colburn)
The Rhine, with Guide for Tourists by D Aird
(1853 Ingram)
The Story of the Bold Pecopin : A Legend of the Rhine
(1902 Smith Elder) - Extract. H R Millar

Napoleon Le Petit
(1852)
Napoleon Le Petit
(1852 Jeffs)
Napoleon the Little
(1852 Viztelly)
Napoleon Le Petit
(1869 David Nut. New Ed)

Histoire D'un Crime
(1877)
History of a Crime
(1877-8 Sampson Low) - 4 vols
(1879 Sampson Low)
(1886 Routledge)
(1888 Ward Lock)

William Shakespeare
(1864)
William Shakespeare
(1864 Hurst & Blackett)
Life and Genius of Shakespeare
(1887 McClurg, UK & US)
Life and Genius of Shakespeare
(1905 New Universal Library)

Choses Vies
(1887)
Things Seen
(1887 Routledge) - 2 vols
(1889 Routledge) - single vol
(1899 Routledge)

Other Posthumous Works
Letters to His Wife
(1895 Estes & Lamont, UK & US)
The Letters of Victor Hugo 1815-1835
(1896 Methuen)
The Alps and Pyrenees
(1898 Bliss Sands)
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
(1899 Heinemann)
The Love Letters of Victor Hugo 1820-22
(1901 Harper, UK & US)
Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography
(1907 Funk & Wagnalls, UK & US)

DRAMA
Hernani
(1830)
Hernani : A Tragedy
(1830 W Sams)
(1887 Bell)
(1888 Ward & Lock)
(1888 Rivingtons)
(1898 Grant Richards)
(1936 Nelson)

Le Roi S'Amuse
(1832)
The King's Fool, or Le Roi s'amuse & Lucrece Borgia
(1842 Romanticist & Novelist's Library)
[Filmed in 1959 as "The Nights of Lucretia Borgia"]
le Roi A'Amuse ! A Tragedy in 5 Acts
(1845 PP)

Ruy Blas
(1838)
Ruy Blas
(1889 Digby Long)
Ruy Blas
(1890 Longmans)
The Queen's Romance
(1904 Grant Richards)
Ruy Blas
(1919 Clarendon Press)

Others
Angelo : A Tragedy
(1880 D Stott)
Dramatic Works
(1887 Bell Standard Library)
Marie Tudor
(1961 Hutchinson Educational)

POETRY
Selections Chiefly Lyrical from Poetical Works of Victor Hugo
(1885 Bohn Standard Library)
Translations from the Poems of Victor Hugo
(1885 Walter Scott Canterbury Poets)
Fragments from Legends and Lyrics
(1894 Digby & Long)
Lyric Poems
(1902 Blackie)
Le Legende des Siecles
(1907 Clarendon Press)
Les Burgraves
(1904 C J Clay Pitt Press Series)
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
(1907 CUP, Pitt Press Series)
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
(1929 Methuen)
Poems Choisies
(1932 Manchester UP)
The Distance, The Shadows : Selected Poems
(2002 Anvil £12.95)

READING
Mme Adele Hugo : Victor Hugo - A Life Narrated by a Witness
(1863 W H Allen) - 2 vols
A Barbou : Victor Hugo and His Times
(1882 Sampson Low)
James Cappon : Victor Hugo
(1885 Blackwood)
A F Davidson : Victor Hugo - The Man & His Character
(c1912 Eveleigh Nash 15/-)
Andre Maurois : Victor Hugo
(1956 Cape)
Andre Maurois : Victor Hugo and His World
(1966 Thames & Hudson)
Joanna Richardson : Victor Hugo
(1976 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Graham Robb : Victor Hugo
(1997 Picador £20)

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