Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo — poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, watercolorist — bestrode nineteenth-century culture like a colossus. Since I must admire his art and thought, I've gathered together the resources listed below:

Quotes and Online Texts

• Verified quotes
• Attributed quotes
• A long quote on the revolution of printing
• A Fight with a Cannon (a dramatic excerpt from Ninety-Three)

Bio-Bibliography

• A bibliography of works by Victor Hugo
• An excellent overview of Hugo's life and career
• Another good overview
• A chronology
• A short biographical essay
• A second short biographical essay
• A biographical essay en Français (and another)
• Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb (available from amazon.com)
• A review of a recently-published translation of Hugo's poems
• An article about Hugo as visual artist and a review of an exhibit of his works

Other Sites

• Victor Hugo Central contains numerous links of value
• A website devoted to Hugo's novel Les Misérables
• Victor Hugo in Memorandum website
• HugoWeb website (includes a number of works online)
• Victor Hugo Association of France
• Victor Hugo, le poète, a site en Français about Hugo as poet
• Victor Hugo's gravesite
• When in France, make sure to visit the home of Victor Hugo
• A recording of songs by Camille Saint-Saens, many of which contain words by Victor Hugo (available from amazon.com)
• A list of songs with lyrics by Victor Hugo