Ninety-third year
19.99 €
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Ninety-third year
19.99 €
"1793—a year resembling a thunderstorm in its wrath and its grandeur." That year, the indecisive King Louis XVI astonished his people—he boldly stepped onto the scaffold, forgiving everyone. The people rejoiced, were confused, and stunned. And France became a new kingdom—a reign of terror. Who was right, who was wrong—these were the questions Balzac, Dumas, and Dickens attempted to answer in their books. Following their dramatic novels about the Great Revolution, Hugo, now gray-haired and steeped in bitter experience, decided to create his final tragic novel—a novel unlike anything else, a tragedy of the era of the Wild Hunt, where the beast, the beater, and the huntsman incomprehensibly and fatally reverse roles.
The events of this grand Aeneid unfold on both land and sea—first in stormy Brittany, then in Paris drunk with fear, and finally in the snarling jungles of the Vendée. On the pages of this breathtaking novel, sailors and aristocrats, priests and soldiers, vagabonds, patriots and conspirators, "men, lions, eagles, and partridges"—grains of sand in the wheel of history—are tormented by the question: can a good deed be evil? "Whoever saves the wolf kills the lambs."
This edition of Victor Hugo's novel "Ninety-Three" is adorned with over two hundred illustrations, including a large set from a 19th-century French book edition (engravings by renowned illustrators and Hugo himself) and a rare set of drawings by Eugène Damblanc, published only in the French press in the early 20th century.
The events of this grand Aeneid unfold on both land and sea—first in stormy Brittany, then in Paris drunk with fear, and finally in the snarling jungles of the Vendée. On the pages of this breathtaking novel, sailors and aristocrats, priests and soldiers, vagabonds, patriots and conspirators, "men, lions, eagles, and partridges"—grains of sand in the wheel of history—are tormented by the question: can a good deed be evil? "Whoever saves the wolf kills the lambs."
This edition of Victor Hugo's novel "Ninety-Three" is adorned with over two hundred illustrations, including a large set from a 19th-century French book edition (engravings by renowned illustrators and Hugo himself) and a rare set of drawings by Eugène Damblanc, published only in the French press in the early 20th century.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Illustrated Classics