Ebook: The man who laughs = L'homme qui rit
Author: Hugo Victor
- Tags: Facial expression -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Femmes fatales -- Fiction. FICTION -- General. Facial expression. Femmes fatales. Man-woman relationships.
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Editions Gallimard
- City: Auckland
- Language: English, French
- epub
Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.
Abstract: Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims