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Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .
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The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2022
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- Titel
- The Man Who Laughs
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Victor Hugo
- Uitgever
- Graphic Arts Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2022
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 196
- ISBN10
- 1513211935
- ISBN13
- 9781513211930
- Reeks
- De man die lacht
- Tags
- Fictie, Historische romans, Klassiekers, Frankrijk, Engeland, Franse literatuur, Verfilmd, 18e Eeuw, 17e eeuw, Kinderontvoeringen, 17e-18e Eeuw
- Eerste editie
- 1869
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- ĽHomme qui rit
- Beoordeling
- 4,3 van 5
- Aantekening
- Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast . . .