Ninety Three
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Description
Victor Hugo wrote Ninety-Three, his last novel, a tale of the French Revolution in its most terrible year. This English version, by Aline Delano, came out at Boston in 1889. The year 1793 saw civil war in the Vendée, where royalist peasants fought the republic, and Hugo sets his story in that fire.
The book opens at sea with the corvette Claymore, England and France united in one dark errand. A loose cannon becomes a monster loose on the gun deck. On land the tale follows a peasant's memory, a beggar on the dune, and the vicissitudes of civil war under the cry of no mercy, no quarter. Hugo writes with vast pity for both sides.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 702 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |