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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was the towering figure of French Romanticism — poet, playwright, novelist, and public conscience of nineteenth-century France. Notre-Dame de Paris made the cathedral and Quasimodo immortal; Les Misérables turned Jean Valjean's long flight into a national epic of justice, love, and redemption. Hugo wrote at full volume: crowded streets, grand passions, and a politics of pity that refused to look away from the poor. Exile on Guernsey only enlarged his voice. Across nine titles here, he remains one of world literature's most generous and impassioned storytellers.

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