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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. VICTOR HUGO'S HUMANITAEIANISM. . In 1829 Victor Hugo published anonymously his Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne (' The Last Day of a Convict'). It thrilled the heart of Paris by its vivid recitals. While having no pretensions to the character of a regular tale, it was, as a writer in the Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. VICTOR HUGO'S HUMANITAEIANISM. . In 1829 Victor Hugo published anonymously his Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne (' The Last Day of a Convict'). It thrilled the heart of Paris by its vivid recitals. While having no pretensions to the character of a regular tale, it was, as a writer in the Edinburgh Review remarked, one of the most perfect things the author had as yet produced. It was the representation of one peculiar state of mind-that of a criminal faced by the certainty of his approaching death under the guillotine. Like Sterne, Hugo had taken a single captive, shut him up in his dungeon, and ' then looked through the twilight of the grated door, to take his picture.' The work is a chronicle of thoughts, a register of sensations; and it is amazing to see what variety and dramatic movement may be imparted to amonologue in which the scene shifts only from the Bicetre to the Conciergerie, the Hotel de Ville, and the Place de Greve. Few descriptions could be found in literature to vie with that in which Victor Hugo places the criminal before us as he enters the court to receive his sentence on a lovely August morning. But all the incidents attending the trial, the condemnation, and the execution are depicted with graphic skill and powerful energy. No one knows better than Victor Hugo how to relieve unutterable gloom by some brilliant ray of human affection, and so upon this condemned prisoner he causes to break a temporary vision of youth and innocence. The intensity all throughthis piece is such as to give the reader a strange realization of the criminal, with his weight of guilt, and his terrible and conflicting emotions. But the critic of the Edinburgh would have us believe that all this was merely due to a desire by Victor Hugo to exhibit his Books, Literary Collections~~General, Victor-Hugo~~George-Barnett-Smith, 999999999, Victor Hugo, George Barnett Smith, 1104571331, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 336 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=22mm, Gew.=662gr, [GR: 11110 - HC/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Lit… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 336 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=22mm, Gew.=662gr, [GR: 11110 - HC/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen], [SW: - Literature - Classics / Criticism], Gebunden<

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