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1 online resource |
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Title; Contents; Preliminary Chapter -- Ursus; Another Preliminary Chapter -- The Comprachicos; PART I; BOOK THE FIRST -- NIGHT NOT SO BLACK AS MAN; Chapter I -- Portland Bill; Chapter II -- Left Alone; Chapter III -- Alone; Chapter IV -- Questions; Chapter V -- The Tree of Human Invention; Chapter VI -- Struggle Between Death and Life; Chapter VII -- The North Point of Portland; BOOK THE SECOND -- THE HOOKER AT SEA; Chapter I -- Superhuman Laws; Chapter II -- Our First Rough Sketches Filled In; Chapter III -- Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea |
| Summary |
Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims |
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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in PDF (820 pages). Nz |
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Novel |
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Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. Nz |
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Facial expression -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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Femmes fatales -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Facial expression
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Femmes fatales
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Man-woman relationships
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775452782 |
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1775452786 |
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