VICTOR HUGO Ultimate Collection: Novels, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Memoirs & Letters (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Ninety-Three, The History of Crime, Cromwell…By Victor Hugo
Length256h 51m
About this audiobook
VICTOR HUGO Ultimate Collection gathers the astonishing range of Hugo's achievement: the great novels, dramatic works, lyric and political poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters that made him a central figure of nineteenth-century European literature. Moving from Gothic melodrama and social epic to intimate confession and prophetic verse, the collection reveals a writer who fused Romantic imagination with moral urgency, reshaping the novel, the stage, and the public role of the poet. Victor Hugo (1802–1885) lived through revolution, empire, republic, exile, and restoration, and his art bears the imprint of these upheavals. A leader of French Romanticism, he challenged classical restraint with emotional grandeur, historical sweep, and sympathy for the dispossessed. His political evolution—from royalist beginnings to republican humanism—helps explain the collection's persistent concern with justice, conscience, tyranny, poverty, and the redemptive possibilities of love and art. This volume is recommended for readers who wish to encounter Hugo not merely as the author of Les Misérables or Notre-Dame de Paris, but as a complete literary force. It is especially valuable for students, scholars, and serious general readers seeking a panoramic view of Romanticism, political literature, and the nineteenth-century imagination.
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
GenreLiterary Classics
Length256 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 14, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1VICTOR HUGO Ultimate Collection: Novels, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Memoirs & Letters (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Introduction
7Victor Hugo: His Life and Work
8PRELIMINARY NOTE.
9Chapter I. Early Years.
10Chapter II. Dawnings of Genius.
11Chapter III. Victor Hugo's Humanitarianism.
12Chapter IV. The Triumph of Romanticism.
13Chapter V. 'Notre-Dame de Paris.'
14Chapter VI. 'Marion De Lorme' and Other Dramas.
15Chapter VII. Last Dramatic Writings.
16Chapter VIII. The French Academy.
17Chapter IX. Personal and Political.
18Chapter X. The Poet in Exile.
19Chapter XI. In Guernsey.—'Les Misérables.'
20Chapter XII. Literary and Dramatic.
21Chapter XIII. Paris and the Siege.
22Chapter XIV. 'Quatre-Vingt-Treize.'—Politics, Etc.
23Chapter XV. Poems On Religion.
24Chapter XVI. Public Addresses, Etc.
25Chapter XVII. 'La Légende des Siècles,' Etc.
26Chapter XVIII. Honours to Victor Hugo.
27Chapter XIX. Personal and Miscellaneous.
28Chapter XX. The Poet's Death and Burial.
29Chapter XXI. Genius and Characteristics.
30Novels & Novellas
31Les Misérables
32Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 1)
33Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 2)
34Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 3)
35Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 4)
36Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 5)
37Volume I. Fantine. (pt. 6)
38Volume II. Cosette (pt. 1)
39Volume II. Cosette (pt. 2)
40Volume II. Cosette (pt. 3)
41Volume II. Cosette (pt. 4)
42Volume II. Cosette (pt. 5)
43Volume III Marius. (pt. 1)
44Volume III Marius. (pt. 2)
45Volume III Marius. (pt. 3)
46Volume III Marius. (pt. 4)
47Volume III Marius. (pt. 5)
48Volume IV. Saint-Denis. (pt. 1)
49Volume IV. Saint-Denis. (pt. 2)
50Volume IV. Saint-Denis. (pt. 3)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Complete Hapgood Translation) (Annotated)Victor Hugo22h 43m$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Gedichte: 137 Titel in einem Band (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo11h 7m$1 · $0.00
Han der Isländer: Historischer Schauerroman (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo13h 2m$1 · $0.00
Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (Annoté)Victor Hugo5h 36m$2 · $0.00
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo25h 44m$2 · $0.00
Les Misérables (Alle 5 Bände) (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo59h 32m$1 · $0.00
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Victor Hugo22h 56m$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Dramen + Gedichte + Balladen (Kommentiert)Victor Hugo131h 2m$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 58m$2 · $0.00
Ninety-Three (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Victor Hugo16h 21m$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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Los miserablesVictor Hugo60h 48m$16 · $0.00
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