Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

“An unspeakable ceiling of shadows; a depth of obscurity that no diver can fathom; a light mingled with the obscurity, a strange somber vanquished light; brightness reduced to powder.” Victor Hugo’s ...

Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

In his literary masterpiece Notre-Dame de Paris, French author Victor Hugo mused that architecture is “thought written in stone.” And this is also the perfect way to describe Hauteville House, his ...

THE purpose of this paper is to review the history of Victor Hugo’s fame. It may thus be possible to arrive at an opinion, that shall not be founded on individual taste or mere caprice, as to the ...

FeatureDuring his long exile in Guernsey, France's most famous writer obsessively arranged every corner of his home. Ornate yet strikingly modern, his decorative vision is now the focus of an ...

THERE were celebrations all round to mark the birthday of Victor Hugo this week. As Nicole Farhi’s sculpture of the young Hugo was unveiled at Candie Museum, it was also revealed that £7.5m. has been ...

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