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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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- Publicado en
- 2022
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Victor Hugo
- Editorial
- Creative Media Partners, LLC
- Publicado en
- 2022
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 354
- ISBN13
- 9781016881449
- Serie
- El hombre que ríe
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Clásicos, Francia, Inglaterra, Literatura francesa, Adaptada al cine, Siglo XVIII, Siglo XVII, Secuestros de niños, Siglo XVII-XVIII
- Primera publicación
- 1869
- Título original
- ĽHomme qui rit
- Calificación
- 4,3 de 5
- Descripción
- 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 . . .