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The Man Who Laughs
by Victor Hugo

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• Author: Victor Hugo
• Release date: August 19, 2006
• Characters: Dea, Gwynplaine, Ursus, Dea, Gwynplaine, Ursus
• Format: paperback, 672 pages
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781934169001 (1934169005)
• Genres: classics, fiction, france, novels, literature, historical, romance
• Publisher: Norilana Books

About The Book

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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