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The life of a writer whose books were such powerful social and political statements that he lived in exile from both France and England.Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: founder and destroyer of the Romantic movement, revolutionary... Read Full Overview

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them Les Mis?rables and The Hunchback... Read Full Overview