false 63043 5 It's easy to see why <i>Victor Hugo</i> won the 1997 Whitbread Biography Award. Unintimidated by the epic sweep of Victor Hugo's life (1802-85), British scholar Graham Robb analyzes it with intelligence, wit, and enormous verve. The author wears his learning lightly as he cherry-picks the vast Hugo archives to cogently chronicle his subject's evolution from leading poet of the Romantic revolution (<i>Hernani</i>) to passionate novelist of the downtrodden (<i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i>) to majestic political exile (<i>The Chastisements</i>), thundering against the tyranny of Louis-Napoleon from the Channel Islands. <i>Victor Hugo</i> is a stimulating, opinionated reassessment of France's most monumental writer. 615506 1997 Victor Hugo: A Biography total:18|5:2|4:11|3:4|2:1| 18 68 38 3 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Apr 18 16:00:18 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 16:01:33 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 07:48:49 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 07:53:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 08 15:51:03 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 16:10:36 -0800 2008 1 2 0 false false Thu Aug 27 13:45:26 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 13:45:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 19:43:09 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 19:43:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:08:24 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 00:08:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 08:32:34 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 08:32:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 18 16:29:03 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 16:29:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 04 23:14:36 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 23:14:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Feb 21 07:20:17 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 07:20:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 12 15:01:47 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 15:01:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 22:53:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 22:53:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 18 23:33:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 23:33:00 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 05 01:44:21 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 01:44:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 30 01:21:51 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 01:21:51 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Dec 16 08:41:26 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 08:41:33 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Dec 11 21:03:13 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 21:03:24 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:29:24 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 00:29:28 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Oct 12 10:15:56 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 10:15:56 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 08 16:06:40 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 16:06:40 -0700 2008