Name: Hans of Iceland
Price: 39.98 USD
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Author: Victor Hugo

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FL-0054E.V.

HUGO, Victor

Hans of Iceland

1823

A red-bearded hermit who drinks from his dead son's skull and keeps a white bear guards a casket that could save a prisoner from the gallows.

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Victor Hugo Hans of Iceland (1823) Overview Han d’Islande is Victor Hugo’s first novel, published anonymously when he was twenty-one and written at nineteen, and it reads exactly like that: a young poet’s gothic romance, saturated with Walter Scott and the German and English horror novel, in which almost everything that will define the mature Hugo is already present in crude, unregulated form. The setting is Norway in 1699, under the Danish crown, in and around Drontheim (Throndhjem) — a fjord town with a morgue on the waterfront, a fortress…

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Accession:FL-0054

Published:1823

Language:en

Shelved under:Fiction

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