The Man Who Was Victor Hugo: Memoirs, Essays, Letters & Speeches (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. With Accompanied BiographyBy Victor Hugo
Length63h 32m
About this audiobook
The Man Who Was Victor Hugo: Memoirs, Essays, Letters & Speeches gathers the public and private voices of one of nineteenth-century Europe's commanding literary figures. Through autobiographical fragments, critical reflections, correspondence, and oratory, the volume reveals Hugo not only as the author of Romantic monuments but as a stylist of immense rhetorical range: intimate, prophetic, combative, and elegiac. Set against the intellectual climate of French Romanticism, revolution, exile, and republican struggle, these writings illuminate the moral imagination behind his novels, poems, and dramas. Victor Hugo's life furnished him with unusually rich material for such a collection. Born in 1802, he witnessed empire, monarchy, revolution, and republic, and his career moved from royalist prodigy to democratic exile and national conscience. His opposition to Napoleon III, his years on Jersey and Guernsey, and his campaigns against capital punishment and social injustice shaped the ethical urgency that pervades these texts. This book is recommended for readers who want to encounter Hugo beyond Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. It will especially reward students of Romanticism, political literature, and intellectual history, offering a vivid portrait of an artist for whom literature, conscience, and public action were inseparable.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length63 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 20, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Biography: Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
3Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
4PRELIMINARY NOTE.
5Chapter I. Early Years. (pt. 1)
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6Chapter I. Early Years. (pt. 2)
7Chapter XI. In Guernsey.—'Les Misérables.' (pt. 1)
8Chapter XI. In Guernsey.—'Les Misérables.' (pt. 2)
9Autobiography: The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
10The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
11PREFACE.
12AT RHEIMS. 1823-1838.
13RECOUNTED BY EYE-WITNESSES
14VISIONS OF THE REAL.
15THEATER
16AT THE ACADEMY.
17AN ELECTION SESSION.
18AN ELECTION SESSION. March 28, 1850.
19LOVE IN PRISON.
20AT THE TUILERIES. 1844-1848.
21IN THE CHAMBER OF PEERS. 1846.
22GENERAL FABVIER
231848.
24THE REVOLUTION OF 1848. (pt. 1)
25THE REVOLUTION OF 1848. (pt. 2)
26SKETCHES MADE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
27LOUIS BONAPARTE.
28THE SIEGE OF PARIS. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS
29THE ASSEMBLY AT BORDEAUX. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS.
30Medley of Philosophy and Literature
31Napoleon the Little
32BOOK I
33BOOK II
34BOOK III
35BOOK IV THE OTHER CRIMES
36BOOK V PARLIAMENTARISM
37BOOK VI THE ABSOLUTION:—FIRST PHASE: THE 7,500,000 VOTES
38BOOK VII THE ABSOLUTION:—SECOND PHASE: THE OATH
39BOOK VIII PROGRESS CONTAINED IN THE COUP D'ÉTAT
40CONCLUSION—PART FIRST PETTINESS OF THE MASTER—ABJECTNESS OF THE SITUATION
41CONCLUSION—PART SECOND FAITH AND AFFLICTION
42William Shakespeare
43PREFACE
44PART I. (pt. 1)
45PART I. (pt. 2)
46PART II. (pt. 1)
47PART II. (pt. 2)
48PART III. CONCLUSION.
49The History of a Crime
50THE FIRST DAY—THE AMBUSH. (pt. 1)
Los miserablesVictor Hugo37h 50m$12 · $0.00
The Count of Monte Cristo & Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas115h 37m4.5 (424)$68 · $0.00
Der lachende MannVictor Hugo, Georg Büchmann25h 47m4.2 (2.8K)$1 · $0.00
Victor Hugo - Sämtliche RomaneVictor Hugo, Friedrich Bremer, Georg Büchmann151h 38m4.4 (127)$3.50 · $0.00
Die größten historischen Romane: Das Zeitalter des MittelaltersVictor Hugo, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Walter Scott, Felix Dahn, August Sperl, Ricarda Huch, Wilhelm Raabe, Levin Schücking, Henry Benrath, Hendrik Conscience, Georg Ebers, Ernst Wichert261h 32m$2 · $0.00
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Complete Hapgood Translation) (Annotated)Victor Hugo22h 43m4.5 (154)$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Gedichte: 137 Titel in einem Band (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo11h 7m4.2 (15)$1 · $0.00
Han der Isländer: Historischer Schauerroman (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo13h 2m3.7 (32)$1 · $0.00
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Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Dramen + Gedichte + Balladen (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo131h 2m4.4 (35)$2 · $0.00
Die besten Historiendramen (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Oskar Wilde, Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Heinrich von Kleist, Sophokles, Aischylos98h 29m$1 · $0.00
The Greatest Works of Victor Hugo (Annotated)Victor Hugo193h 58m4.5 (40)$2 · $0.00
Ninety-Three (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Victor Hugo16h 21m4.1 (6.7K)$2 · $0.00
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (Vol. 1-8) (Annotated)Victor Hugo, Henry James, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Howitt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Augustus J. C. Hare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Grant Allen, John Ruskin, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe46h 35m$2 · $0.00
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Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
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