From the Earth to the Moon: Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes; And a Trip Round It

By Victor Hugo

However, the courage of Hatteras was still undaun'ted. The three men who were left him were the best on board his brig, and while they remained he might venture to hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Release date: Nov 6, 2017

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the most well-regarded French writers of the nineteenth century. He was a poet, novelist and dramatist, and he is best remembered in English as the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Hugo was born in Besançon, and became a pivotal figure of the Romantic movement in France, involved in both literature and politics. He founded the literary magazine Conservateur Littéraire in 1819, aged just seventeen, and turned his hand to writing political verse and drama after the accession to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1830. His literary output was curtailed following the death of his daughter in 1843, but he began a new novel as an outlet for his grief. Completed many years later, this novel became Hugo's most notable work, Les Misérables.