Name: The Man Who Laughs
Author: Victor Hugo

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HUGO, Victor

The Man Who Laughs

1869

1. Fiction

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Victor Hugo The Man Who Laughs (1869) Overview Hugo’s late, strangest, angriest novel is a political pamphlet wearing the costume of a gothic melodrama. Set in England between January 1690 and the spring of 1705, it follows a boy whose face was surgically carved into a permanent grin by the comprachicos — child-buyers who manufactured monsters for the amusement of courts — and who is abandoned on the Portland coast on the night the gang flees the country. He rescues a dying infant from her frozen mother’s breast, is taken…

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Accession:FL-0058

Published:1869

Language:en

Shelved under:Fiction

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