Here is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, the work gives full play to the author's brilliant imagination. Revised reissue.[...]
'One of the best biographies I have read, ever' Selina Hastings 'Mr Robb has written an enthralling book - one of the great biographies of our time. He contrives not to be dwarfed by his subject, which is some contrivance. He makes of Hugo's life a story as exciting to read as it was extraordinary t[...]
Robert Louis Stevenson once said of "Les Miserables, "Take it for all in all, there are few books in the world that can be compared with it." A story of poverty, wretchedness, and, ultimately, the human will to overcome any condition and climb toward redemption, "Les Miserables is the inspiration of[...]