The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo

The Laughing Man

Victor Hugo with James Hogarth (Translator)

484 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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"Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf" the former a travelling mountebank, the latter his faithful companion. Gwynplaine was abducted as an infant, and cruelly mutilated so that his face shows the permanent smile of a clown. Abandoned by his abductors som...

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