Les miserables victor hugo

Read "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo available from Rakuten Kobo. Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It f...

Cosette from Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"

So how did we go about curating this collection of impactful typographic and lettering book cover designs? Well, by following a simple but tedious two- step process. First we studied several respected '100 books to read' type compilations. Specifically - the original 2003 BBC Big Read, The Guardian's 100 greatest novel

In celebration of Bastille Day, six books by French authors or set in France!

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

by Rob Zaretsky Today, our guest, historian Rob Zaretsky balances the building against the book. The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.