The Man Who Laughs

Written by Victor Hugo

Narrated by Simon Vance

The Man Who Laughs
By Victor Hugo. Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.
 
The Man Who Laughs (“L’Homme qui Rit”) was called by its author “A Romance of English History,” and was written during the period Hugo spent in exile in Guernsey. Like The Toilers of the Sea, its immediate predecessor, the main theme of the story is human heroism, confronted with the superhuman tyranny of blind chance. As a passionate cry on behalf of the tortured and deformed, and the despised and oppressed of the world, The Man Who Laughs is irresistible. Of it Hugo himself says in the preface: “The true title of this book should be “Aristocracy’”—inasmuch as it was intended as an arraignment of the nobility for their vices, crimes, and selfishness. The Man Who Laughs was first published in 1869.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oasis Audio
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781645555889

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo est un poète, dramaturge, écrivain, romancier et dessinateur romantique français, né le 26 février 1802 à Besançon et mort le 22 mai 1885 à Paris. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de la langue française."Bug-Jargal" est le premier roman de Victor Hugo. Il paraît dans la revue le Conservateur littéraire en 1820.

Reviews for The Man Who Laughs

[dgturnerr · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Good speaker. Too wordy with history and rephrasimg and illustrating.

[Diego José · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A magnificent novel. How nice it is to find these wonders in the classics. The publishing industry needs us to constantly read new releases, which is understandable and legitimate. But we shouldn't passively buy into that narrative. Alibrate is one of the good places to remind us of these things. (Translated from Spanish)

[VioletaRzh · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

If you like historical novels, this book is highly recommended. It mainly deals with the society of England in the 1700s. It is the first novel I have read by Victor Hugo, and I liked it. (Translated from Spanish)

[Sergio Limón Tello · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Victor Hugo, it is VICTOR HUGO! (Translated from Spanish)

[RoseRuiz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I feel ecstatic reading this work. (Translated from Spanish)

[VirgilioSamaniego · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A great classic (Translated from Spanish)

[Yubiwa70 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is not his best novel (it's impossible to improve on Les Misérables) but so different, so profound, so dark and disturbing that it deserves a different author to avoid always being compared, always mentioned in a footnote, an addition. (Translated from Spanish)

[Minerva18 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An impressive, moving work. The reflections on the greatness and baseness of the human soul in a book through its characters and story are brilliant. (Translated from Spanish)