History in the Text 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution
Title | History in the Text 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Sandy Petrey |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 1980-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9027281033 |
The title of this study “History in the text” is an oxymoronic phrase, and by this, the main focus of the book is clear immediately. On the other hand, there still remains the question to what extent text and history are comparable. The author of this volume tries to answer this by discussing the famous novel of Victor Hugo Quatrevingt-Treize against the background of the French Revolution.
Quatrevingt-treize
Title | Quatrevingt-treize PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 2017-07-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781548911751 |
Quatrevingt-Treize by Victor Hugo
Further Sources of Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-Treize
Title | Further Sources of Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-Treize PDF eBook |
Author | Olin Harris Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
Ninety-Three (Illustrated Edition)
Title | Ninety-Three (Illustrated Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2020-12-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788027306701 |
Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. Published in 1874, shortly after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune, the novel concerns the Revolt in the Vendée and Chouannerie - the counter-revolutionary revolts in 1793 during the French Revolution. It is divided into three parts, but not chronologically; each part tells a different story, offering a different view of historical general events. The action mainly takes place in Brittany and in Paris. Ayn Rand greatly praised this book (and Hugo's writing in general), acknowledged it as a source of inspiration, and even wrote an introduction to one of its English-language editions.
Ninety-three
Title | Ninety-three PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Ninety-Three
Title | Ninety-Three PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1513294229 |
Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. “The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was in full bloom; they were surrounded by a quivering wall of branches, whose leaves diffused a delicious freshness. Here and there sunbeams pierced these green shades.” Advancing through the countryside, a band of Republican soldiers discovers a family of refugees, a mother and two children who fled for their lives during the insurrection of Royalists in Brittany. Taken in, they are swept up in an attack by the merciless Marquis de Lantenac, a counterrevolutionary leader who has just landed with a unit of Royalist troops. Separated from her children, Michelle is protected by a local beggar who hides her from Lantenac and his men. Meanwhile, Robespierre, Marat, and Danton have sent Commander Gauvain from Paris to stamp out the Royalist threat in Brittany, knowing all too well that Lantenac is his distant relative. As families are torn apart in the name of political struggle, as mercy gives way to death and betrayal, Hugo examines the human cost of war without losing sight of the gravity of the historical moment. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
Unfinished Revolutions
Title | Unfinished Revolutions PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Denommé |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780271041803 |
Original essays that show how the French Revolution continues to influence that country to the present day.