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Victor Hugo


Born
in Besançon, Doubs, France
February 26, 1802

Died
May 22, 1885

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Philosophy

Influences
William Shakespeare, Chateaubriand, Walter Scott, Lamartine, Dante ...more


After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 1,178,012 ratings · 43,191 reviews · 5,574 distinct works • Similar authors
Les Misérables
4.21 avg rating — 825,409 ratings — published 1862 — 3 editions
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
4.02 avg rating — 210,428 ratings — published 1831 — 4210 editions
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The Last Day of a Condemned...
3.97 avg rating — 35,413 ratings — published 1829 — 685 editions
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The Man Who Laughs
4.24 avg rating — 14,348 ratings — published 1869 — 727 editions
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Fantine (Les Misérables, #1)
4.40 avg rating — 12,278 ratings — published 1862 — 750 editions
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Les Misérables: Volume Two ...
4.42 avg rating — 7,180 ratings — published 1862 — 680 editions
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Ninety-Three
4.08 avg rating — 6,118 ratings — published 1874 — 659 editions
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The Toilers of the Sea
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4.06 avg rating — 4,754 ratings — published 1866 — 570 editions
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Les Contemplations
3.96 avg rating — 3,643 ratings — published 1856 — 193 editions
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3.54 avg rating — 3,586 ratings — published 1838 — 269 editions
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
tags: literature, music, poetry
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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Oldtimer - Klasik Okuma Grubu - Mayıs-Haziran 2018 Uzun Okumalar Anketi

Mayıs ve Haziran 2018 aylarında aşağıdaki klasiklerden hangisini okuyalım?

Victor Hugo - Notre Dame'ın Kamburu, 1831, 572 sayfa
 
  7 votes 14.0%

 
  6 votes 12.0%

Haruki Murakami - Sahilde Kafka, 2002, 656 sayfa
 
  6 votes 12.0%

Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov, 1859, 585 sayfa
 
  4 votes 8.0%

Victor Hugo -
Sefiller, 1862, 1724 sayfa
 
  4 votes 8.0%

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, 1878, 1068 sayfa
 
  4 votes 8.0%

 
  3 votes 6.0%

 
  3 votes 6.0%

 
  3 votes 6.0%

Vedat Türkali - Güven, 2000, 1248 sayfa
 
  2 votes 4.0%

George Eliot - Middlemarch, 1871, 1296 sayfa
 
  2 votes 4.0%

Günter Grass - Teneke Trampet, 1959, 727 sayfa
 
  2 votes 4.0%

 
  1 vote 2.0%

James Joyce - Ulysses, 1922, 841 sayfa
 
  1 vote 2.0%

 
  1 vote 2.0%

Alexandre Dumas - Üç Silahşörler, 1844, 755 sayfa
 
  1 vote 2.0%

André Malraux - Umut, 1937, 569 sayfa
 
  0 votes 0.0%

 
  0 votes 0.0%

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