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
38BOOK VII THE ABSOLUTION:—SECOND PHASE: THE OATH
2Biography: Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
39BOOK VIII PROGRESS CONTAINED IN THE COUP D'ÉTAT
3Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
40CONCLUSION—PART FIRST PETTINESS OF THE MASTER—ABJECTNESS OF THE SITUATION
4PRELIMINARY NOTE.
41CONCLUSION—PART SECOND FAITH AND AFFLICTION
5Chapter I. Early Years. (pt. 1)
42William Shakespeare
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6Chapter I. Early Years. (pt. 2)
43PREFACE
7Chapter XI. In Guernsey.—'Les Misérables.' (pt. 1)
44PART I. (pt. 1)
8Chapter XI. In Guernsey.—'Les Misérables.' (pt. 2)
45PART I. (pt. 2)
9Autobiography: The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
46PART II. (pt. 1)
10The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
47PART II. (pt. 2)
11PREFACE.
48PART III. CONCLUSION.
12AT RHEIMS. 1823-1838.
49The History of a Crime
13RECOUNTED BY EYE-WITNESSES
50THE FIRST DAY—THE AMBUSH. (pt. 1)
14VISIONS OF THE REAL.
51THE FIRST DAY—THE AMBUSH. (pt. 2)
15THEATER
52THE FIRST DAY—THE AMBUSH. (pt. 3)
16AT THE ACADEMY.
53THE SECOND DAY—THE STRUGGLE. (pt. 1)
17AN ELECTION SESSION.
54THE SECOND DAY—THE STRUGGLE. (pt. 2)
18AN ELECTION SESSION. March 28, 1850.
55THE THIRD DAY—THE MASSACRE. (pt. 1)
19LOVE IN PRISON.
56THE THIRD DAY—THE MASSACRE. (pt. 2)
20AT THE TUILERIES. 1844-1848.
57THE FOURTH DAY—THE VICTORY. (pt. 1)
21IN THE CHAMBER OF PEERS. 1846.
58THE FOURTH DAY—THE VICTORY. (pt. 2)
22GENERAL FABVIER
59CONCLUSION—THE FALL.
231848.
60Speeches:
24THE REVOLUTION OF 1848. (pt. 1)
61"In Defense of His Son"
25THE REVOLUTION OF 1848. (pt. 2)
62Address to the Workman's Congress at Marseille
26SKETCHES MADE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
63Oration on Voltaire
27LOUIS BONAPARTE.
64Letters:
28THE SIEGE OF PARIS. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS
65Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo
29THE ASSEMBLY AT BORDEAUX. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS.
66FOREWORD
30Medley of Philosophy and Literature
67PART I BIOGRAPHICAL (pt. 1)
31Napoleon the Little
68PART I BIOGRAPHICAL (pt. 2)
32BOOK I
69PART II LETTERS (pt. 1)
33BOOK II
70PART II LETTERS (pt. 2)
34BOOK III
71PART II LETTERS (pt. 3)
35BOOK IV THE OTHER CRIMES
72Letter to the London News Regarding John Brown
36BOOK V PARLIAMENTARISM
73Letter to Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman on American Slavery
37BOOK VI THE ABSOLUTION:—FIRST PHASE: THE 7,500,000 VOTES
Große Klassiker der französischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Voltaire, George Sand, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, François Rabelais, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Baudelaire, Stendhal, Denis Diderot, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, Alphonse Daudet, Jules Verne, Antoine-François Prévost, Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marquis de Sade, Anatole France, Alfred de Musset, Guy de Maupassant, Jean Giraudoux, François René Chateaubriand, Guillaume de Lorris, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Moliere, Jean Baptiste Racine, Edmond Rostand, Pierre Corneille709h 50m$1.50 · $0.00
Notre-Dame von Paris (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo25h 46m$1 · $0.00
Les Miserables (Fully Illustrated Unabridged Hapgood Translation) (Annotated)Victor Hugo66h 26m$2 · $0.00
L'homme Qui RitVictor Hugo20h 29m$1 · $0.00
Han d'IslandeVictor Hugo12h$2 · $0.00
Le Dernier Jour d'un CondamnéVictor Hugo4h 4m$2 · $0.00
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo64h 17m$1 · $0.00
The History of a CrimeVictor Hugo17h 3m$2 · $0.00
Les contemplations: Aujourd'hui, 1843-1856Victor Hugo8h 52m$1 · $0.00
The Memoirs of Victor HugoVictor Hugo10h 21m$2 · $0.00
Quatrevingt-TreizeVictor Hugo15h 43m$1 · $0.00
Bug-JargalVictor Hugo7h 50m$1 · $0.00
L'année terribleVictor Hugo9h 23m$1 · $0.00
Mary TudorVictor Hugo3h 54m$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Dramen + Gedichte + BalladenVictor Hugo131h 52m$2 · $0.00
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated Edition)Victor Hugo22h 21m$1 · $0.00
Ninety-ThreeVictor Hugo15h 57m$2 · $0.00
Das beste von HugoVictor Hugo106h 6m$2 · $0.00
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Defying JihadEsther Ahmad8h 50m$20
Bad Fat Black GirlSesali Bowen6h 32m$24 · $0.00
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Send MeMarty Skovlund, Joe Kent8h 10m$26 · $0.00
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Left for DeadEbony Canion5h 34m$17
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m$29 · $0.00
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Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m$29 · $0.00
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