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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; Volume 1, Victor Hugo
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- Rok vydania
- 2022
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Victor Hugo
- Vydavateľ
- Creative Media Partners, LLC
- Rok vydania
- 2022
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 354
- ISBN13
- 9781016881449
- Série
- Muž, ktorý sa smeje
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické romány, Klasika, Francúzsko, Anglicko, Francúzska literatúra, Sfilmované, 18. storočie, 17. storočie, Únosy detí, 17.-18. storočie
- Prvé vydanie
- 1869
- Pôvodný názov
- ĽHomme qui rit
- Hodnotenie
- 4,3 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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 . . .