'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[...]

"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kin[...]

Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is se[...]