Hugo: 1509 books

In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon...

This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 100 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] Emma, Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve,...

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo.

Originally published in 1831, this early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by Victor Hugo, this famous tale of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in classic literature. Many of the earliest books,...

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's timeless novel of income inequality and financial desperation in the face of an uncaring world is as timely today as it was when he first wrote it. Love and dispar mingle in this novel about the poorest class, the wretched poor, in Paris during the June Rebellion. Strong...

'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to...

Les Misérables is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.  Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience...

'Oliver Cromwell' was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo's gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as one of the manifestos of the Romantic movement.

Le roi s'amuse, best translated as 'The King Amuses Himself', is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play is Triboulet, a witty court jester, through whose words Hugo frequently attacks contemporary society.

Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial/Organizational (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg encountered...

In this volume, Hugo Letiche tackles the allimportant question, is there “care” in healthcare? If, as Klaus Krippendorff(2006) argues, “meaning is a structured space, a network of expected senses, a set of possibilities…[that] emerges in the use of language,” then within the healthcare systems...

Hugo Soskin, son of best-selling author on Rennes-le-Château Henry Lincoln, has no time for the French Pyrenean village and its mysteries. He is fed up with the whole subject of how a nineteenth-century priest came to be a millionaire overnight and why he built so many bizarre clues into his church...

Have you ever wondered how those freaks of nature known as Human Calculators do what they do? How they're able to solve seemingly impossible math problems in their head in mere seconds? Well there is a method to their madness! And in this book, I am going to spill all the beans... From accurately...

Genießen Sie diese sorgfältig ausgewählten Geschichten über Schatzsuchen und Seefahrten, in dem Sie die Welt der blutigen Schlachten und mutigen Helden des Meeres einsteigen. Inhalt: Die Schatzinsel (R. L. Stevenson) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Der schwarze Korsar (Emilio Salgari) Die denkwürdigen...