"Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography".--"Washington Square

The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in

The Liberal French Spirit in Lyric Form Victor Hugo is not only known for his complex novels but also for his beautiful poetry. In his poems, Hugo touches a var