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Selected Poetry

Victor Hugo

Translated by Stephen Monte

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Categories: 19th Century, French
Imprint: Fyfield Books
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Paperback (220 pages)
(Pub. Sep 2001)
9781857545395
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Hardback (220 pages)
(Pub. Sep 2001)
9781857545722
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  • Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a many-sided man: poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and painter. He is often considered to be France’s greatest poet. His novels, including Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris, stand in almost equally high regard. ... read more
    Stephen Monte
    Stephen Monte was born and raised in Philadelphia area. He obtained an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (1989); Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University (1996) and is currently living and teaching in Chicago. His academic work concentrates on 19th- and 20th-century French and American Poetry, modernism in ... read more
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