num_pages: 600
description: Ursus and Homo were fast friends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name. Having found Ursus fit for himself, he had found Homo fit for the beast. Man and wolf turned their partnership to account at fairs, at village fêtes, at the corners of streets where passers-by throng, and out of the need which people seem to feel everywhere to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine.
language: English
title: The Man Who Laughs
titlecomplete: The Man Who Laughs
characters: Ursus, Gwynplaine, Dea, Dea, Gwynplaine, Ursus
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 12706
publisher: Atlantean Press