Victor Hugo On Things That Matter

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300161050
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victor Hugo on Things That Matter written by Victor Hugo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo on Things That Matter gives English speakers the social, historical, cultural, and biographical context that is essential for enjoying the writing and art of this genius of nineteenth-century France. The book's topical organization lets readers investigate Hugo's ideas about private and personal concerns--love, children, grief, nature, God--as well as public and politically important issues--liberty and democracy, tyranny, social justice, humanity, peace, and war. Unlike other Hugo anthologies, Victor Hugo on Things That Matter offers introductions and notes in English and includes twenty-five of Hugo's watercolors and drawings. Readers will find key Hugo texts in the original French, along with the following supplemental information in English: - an overview of Hugo's importance and his private and public personas;- introductions to each chapter;- historical and cultural explanatory notes;- a time line of Hugo's life and work;- suggestions for further reading. Marva Barnett is professor at the University of Virginia, where she also serves as director of the Teaching Resource Center.

Author : Marva A. Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997228762
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Love Is to Act written by Marva A. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To love is to act"-- "Aimer, c'est agir." These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people--especially the poor and wretched--drove him not only to write his epic Les Misérables but also to follow his conscience. We have much to learn from Hugo, who battled for justice, lobbied against slavery and the death penalty, and fought for the rights of women and children. In a series of essays that interweave Hugo's life with Les Misérables and point to the novel's contemporary relevance, To Love Is to Act explores how Hugo reveals his guiding principles for life, including his belief in the redemptive power of love and forgiveness. Enriching the book are insights from artists who captured the novel's heart in the famed musical, Les Mis creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, producer of the musical Les Misérables Cameron Mackintosh, film director Tom Hooper, and award-winning actors who have portrayed Jean Valjean: Colm Wilkinson and Hugh Jackman.

Author : Scott Magoon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618646388
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hugo & Miles in written by Scott Magoon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamic duo of Hugo and Miles travels to Paris in this fun adventure thatlets young readers see the world from a different angle. Full color.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354736142
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victor Hugo S Works 22 Things Seen Essays written by Victor Hugo and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Keila V. Dawson
Publisher : Beaming Books
ISBN 13 : 1506468926
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening the Road written by Keila V. Dawson and published by Beaming Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation. In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.

Author : Arthur Fitzwilliam Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victor Hugo written by Arthur Fitzwilliam Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel Schwartzberg
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523094125
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get to the Point! written by Joel Schwartzberg and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to improve your impact in speeches, staff meetings, pitches, emails, PowerPoint presentations, or any other communication setting, this book provides a novel approach that teaches you how to go from simply sharing a thought to making a difference. --

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434454495
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things Seen (Choses Vues) written by Victor Hugo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Victor Hugo. A facsimile reprint from the "Edition de Luxe" (limited to 1,000 copies).

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983322047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dieu ; Et, La Fin de Satan written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual, abbreviated editions of two book-length poems--unfinished and unpublished at the time of the author's death--comprised of selections that capture their visionary and mystical essence. The poems are accompanied by an introduction framing them within the author's experience as an exile and tracing their publication history.

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551114461
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bug-Jargal written by Victor Hugo and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo’s novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship and rivalry, a provocative account of the ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of the rebel leaders and the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever those ties completely. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a broad selection of appendices, including Hugo’s never-before-translated 1820 short story “Bug-Jargal,” contemporary reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to the young Hugo’s poetics and politics, and selections from his source materials about the Haitian Revolution.