Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo, arguably France's greatest literary figure, wrote poetry, plays, and novels with equal facility, and while his novels (including Notre Dame de Paris [aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame] and Les Misérables) are his most influential works today, his works in all three genres have inspired composers of not just classical, but popular music. During the Romantic era, there was hardly a single French composer who didn't set at least one of Hugo's works, few Italian opera composers who didn't at least consider one of his plays, and while his influence was strongest in those two countries, it was also felt worldwide. His writing also had a profound impact on other writers, calling for an end to the neo-Classicism that had dominated French literature, particularly its deliberate elegance and restraint in expression and choice of subjects, introducing "orientalist" influences, and insisting on juxtaposing humor and tragedy, as well as the ugly and the beautiful. (This emphasis on freedom found particular resonance in Giuseppe Verdi and sparked several of his wars with censorship in Italy, particularly over Rigoletto, based on Le roi s'amuse.) Though his later writing in particular, he tended to be sentimental and moralizing, his trailblazing spread Romanticism throughout Europe, and his humanism inspired Tolstoy. Despite his populism, he was well aware of his fame and influence and not modest about it; for example, he declared that the city should be renamed Hugo in his honor. His writing brought him early fame, earning him membership in the Legion of Honor at the age of 23 and membership in the prestigious Academie Française at 39. He was also controversial from an early age; the premiere of his play Hernani in 1830 actually sparked brawls and riots. Like Beethoven, Hugo was first deeply inspired by Napoleon and later, deeply disillusioned; he was even exiled from France in 1851 for his highly vocal criticism of and opposition to Napoleon III. In 1870, he returned to Paris, where he was lionized by both political and literary circles.
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Les Misérables - Volume 3: Marius (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables, Tome 3 (intégral)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Libraudios on 10 Aug 2022
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700 citations des grands écrivains du XIXe siècle
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 9 Jun 2022
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Les Misérables : L'intégrale
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Century Audio on 18 Mar 2019
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Amants, heureux amants... : Les plus beaux poèmes d'amour français
Victor Hugo, Pierre De Ronsard, Baudelaire
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El Jorobado de Notre Dame (abreviado)
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Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame, Buch 1 (Ungekürzt)
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700 citations des grands écrivains français du XIXème siècle (Les citations les plus inspirantes)
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1100 citations des grands écrivains français du XIXe siècle
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 9 Jun 2022
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 8 (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 1: Fantine - Book 5: The Descent (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 2: Cosette - Book 1: Waterloo (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 4: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue St. Denis - Book 5: The End of Which does Not Resemble the Beginning (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 3: Marius - Book 4: The Friends of the A B C (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 5: Jean Valjean - Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather (Unabridged)
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!Salsa Perfecta! (Dancer's Dream)
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Les Misérables - Volume 5: Jean Valjean (Unabridged)
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Les Misérables: Volume 1: Fantine - Book 1: A Just Man (Unabridged)
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Victor Hugo (Poètes et chansons)
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: abridged
Victor Hugo, Christopher Lee, Victor Hugo Read By Christopher Lee
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