num_pages: 682
description: Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was also a radical political thinker and eventual exile from France; a gifted painter and architect; a visionary who conversed with Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jesus Christ; in short, a tantalizing personality who dominated and maddened his contemporaries.
language: English
title: Victor Hugo: A Biography
titlecomplete: Victor Hugo: A Biography
characters: Victor Hugo
genres: Biography, Biography Memoir, Literature, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, France
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  Company