Ninety-three, The last day of a condemned

Ninety-three, The last day of a condemned PDF Author: Victor Hugo
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Pages : 726

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Ninety-three, The last day of a condemned

Ninety-three, The last day of a condemned PDF Author: Victor Hugo
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Ninety-three, The last day of a condemned

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man

The Last Day of a Condemned Man PDF Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513294245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky as “absolutely the most real and truthful of everything that Hugo wrote,” The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a powerful story from an author who defined nineteenth century French literature. If you knew when and where you would die, how would you spend your final moments? For Hugo’s unnamed narrator, such an existential question is made reality. Sentenced to death for an unspecified crime, he reflects on his life as its last seconds wane in the shadows of a cramped prison cell. Recording his emotional state, observations, and conversations with a priest and fellow prisoner, the condemned man forces us to not only recognize his humanity, but question our own. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

Ninety-three

Ninety-three PDF Author: Victor Hugo
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man

The Last Day of a Condemned Man PDF Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN: 3989887181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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A new 2023 translation into American English from the original French manuscripts of Victor Hugo's classic 1829 The Last Day of a Condemned Man. Hugo's classic early novel is a powerful indictment of the death penalty and a plea to end capital punishment completely. This edition contains an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Hugo's life and a summary of each of Hugo's major works chronologically. This novel follows the thoughts and emotions of a man who is sentenced to death, leading up to his execution. It influenced many novels after it, including Dostoevsky's Notes from a Dead House, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The work is considered a classic of French literature and played a significant role in the abolition of the death penalty in France in the 20th century.

The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) PDF Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 178877292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Victor Hugo’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Hugo includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Hugo’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned

Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned PDF Author: Victor Hugo
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Languages : en
Pages : 696

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The Romances of Victor Hugo: Ninety-three. The last day of a condemned

The Romances of Victor Hugo: Ninety-three. The last day of a condemned PDF Author: Victor Hugo
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Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Ninety-Three

Ninety-Three PDF Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: 谷月社
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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THE FOREST OF LA SAUDRAIE. During the last days of May, 1793, one of the Parisian battalions introduced into Brittany by Santerre was reconnoitring the formidable La Saudraie Woods in Astillé. Decimated by this cruel war, the battalion was reduced to about three hundred men. This was at the time when, after Argonne, Jemmapes, and Valmy, of the first battalion of Paris, which had numbered six hundred volunteers, only twenty-seven men remained, thirty-three of the second, and fifty-seven of the third,—a time of epic combats. The battalion sent from Paris into La Vendée numbered nine hundred and twelve men. Each regiment had three pieces of cannon. They had been quickly mustered. On the 25th of April, Gohier being Minister of Justice, and Bouchotte Minister of War, the section of Bon Conseil had offered to send volunteer battalions into La Vendée; the report was made by Lubin, a member of the Commune. On the 1st of May, Santerre was ready to send off twelve thousand men, thirty field-pieces, and one battalion of gunners. These battalions, notwithstanding they were so quickly formed, serve as models even at the present day, and regiments of the line are formed on the same plan; they altered the former proportion between the number of soldiers and that of non-commissioned officers. On the 28th of April the Paris Commune had given to the volunteers of Santerre the following order: "No mercy, no quarter." Of the twelve thousand that had left Paris, at the end of May eight thousand were dead. The battalion which was engaged in La Saudraie held itself on its guard. There was no hurrying: every man looked at once to right and to left, before him, behind him. Kléber has said: "The soldier has an eye in his back." They had been marching a long time. What o'clock could it be? What time of the day was it? It would have been hard to say; for there is always a sort of dusk in these wild thickets, and it was never light in that wood. The forest of La Saudraie was a tragic one. It was in this coppice that from the month of November, 1792, civil war began its crimes; Mousqueton, the fierce cripple, had come forth from those fatal thickets; the number of murders that had been committed there made one's hair stand on end. No spot was more terrible.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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