ISBN: 9781605015439

The Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in Eng… More...

The Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in England, a time of political unrest and class conflict in which he identified parallels to France of the 19th century. Although the novel was largely panned at the time, it has since been recognized as one of Hugo’s greatest works. The Man Who Laughs has inspired over a dozen adaptations in film, theater, and comics, including a 1928 American silent film that served as source material for the Joker in the original 1940 issue of Batman. “Again the child set himself to sweep away the snow. The neck of the dead woman appeared; then her shoulders, clothed in rags. Suddenly he felt something move feebly under his touch. It was something small that was buried, and which stirred. The child swiftly cleared away the snow, discovering a wretched little body—thin, wan with cold, still alive, lying naked on the dead woman's naked breast.” Abandoned by a group of Comprachicos, criminals who buy and capture children for the purpose of mutilating them and forcing them to work as beggars or performers, the young Gwynplaine wanders the English coast alone. During a storm, he discovers an infant girl and her dead mother lying in the snow, and endeavors to save the child. Left with no choice but to rely on strangers, Gwynplaine joins a carnival run by the merciful Ursus, a man with a pet wolf. Horrified at first by the boy’s disfigurement, which has left a perpetual smile on his face, Ursus agrees to care for the children and soon finds that Gwynplaine is a versatile and lucrative attraction at his shows. When the Duchess Josiana attends the carnival to see Gwynplaine, now a young man, she finds herself strangely attracted to him. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, MobileReference Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781605015439

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L"Homme qui rit. Although among Hugo"s most obscure works, it was adapted into a po… More...

The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L"Homme qui rit. Although among Hugo"s most obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin and Olga Baclanova.Hugo wrote The Man Who Laughs, or the Laughing Man, over a period of fifteen months while he was living in the Channel Islands, having been exiled from his native France due to the controversial political content of his previous novels. Hugo"s working title for this book was On the King"s Command, but a friend suggested The Man Who Laughs.- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Taal: Engels; Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe; Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ; Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers geschikt voor ebooks in ePub formaat. Tablet of smartphone voorzien van een app zoals de bol.com Kobo app.; ISBN10: 1605015431; ISBN13: 9781605015439; , Engelstalig | Ebook, Literatuur & Romans, Romans algemeen, Mobilereference<

ISBN: 9781605015439

The Man Who Laughs (first published in 1869) is Victor Hugo’s scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain’s political system. It is the story of Gwynpla… More...

The Man Who Laughs (first published in 1869) is Victor Hugo’s scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain’s political system. It is the story of Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted upon the orders of a vindictive monarch, and whose face is mutilated into a permanent grisly grin, then abandoned. After years of living in poverty, Gwynplaine is reintroduced to the aristocratic life and resolves to become the voice of the voiceless—whether he is heard or not. Author David Hine and artist Mark Stafford introduce Hugo’s classic to a new generation of fans in this graphic-novel adaptation of abduction, mutilation, loss, and prejudice. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, MobileReference Digital >16<

ISBN: 1605015431

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every book and chapter. ************. Contents. Preliminary Chapt… More...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every book and chapter. ************. Contents. Preliminary Chapter: Ursus. Another Preliminary Chapter: The Comprachicos. Part I: Book I: Night Not So Black As Man. Book II: The Hooker At Sea. Book III: The Child in the Shadow. Part II: Book I: The Everlasting Presence of the Past:. Book II: Gwynplaine and Dea. Book III: The Beginning of the Fissure. Book IV: The Cell of Torture. Book V: The Sea and Fate Are Moved by the Same Breath. Book VI: Ursus Under Different Aspects. Book VII: The Titaness. Book VIII: The Capitol and Things Around It. Book IX: In Ruins. Conclusion: The Night and the Sea. . Fiction Fiction eBook, MobileReference.com<

ISBN: 9781605015439

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