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Never have I read a novel so beautifully constructed, lovingly constructed, with plots and sub-plots diverging and meeting repeatedly so masterfully, so surprising but at the same time, all parts seem so necessary.

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Anyway, I read it mostly because the visual appearance of the Joker (of Batman fame) was based on Conrad Viedt's portrayal of Gwynplaine in the German silent film ve...more...]]> 56300843 2323075 63038 1934169005 9781934169001 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170614515m/63038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170614515s/63038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63038.The_Man_Who_Laughs 3.77 556 1385 5 0 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 13:11:01 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:07:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5110564 150168 1192541 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216656625m/1192541.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216656625s/1192541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1192541._ 3.40 73 1385 0 1 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Aug 25 15:55:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:03:55 -0800 2009 32987757 426735 1841134 1603122362 9781603122368 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189062537m/1841134.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189062537s/1841134.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1841134.The_Man_Who_Laughs 3.50 4 The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. Is starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. 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Un autre livre, qui suivra, pourra être intitulé la Monarchie. Et ces deux livres, s'il est donné à l'auteur d'achever ce travail, en précéderont et en amèneront un autre qui sera intitulé: Quatrevingt-treize.</p> <p align="justify">Hauteville-House, 1869.</p> <hr> I. Ursus et Homo étaient liés d'une amitié étroite. Ursus était un homme, Homo était un loup, Leurs humeurs s'étaient convenues. C'était l'homme qui avait baptisé le loup. 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