num_pages: 682
description: Against the background of French and European society from the Revolution to the dawn of the twentieth century, a grand biography brings to life the larger-than-life novelist, a founder of the Romantic movement, painter, political exile, and mystic.
language: English
title: Victor Hugo: A Biography
titlecomplete: Victor Hugo: A Biography
characters: Victor Hugo
genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, France, History, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature
ratings_count: 198
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc