Description: The man who laughsbyVictor HugoVolume 2The main scenes of this strange novel take place in England during the reign of Queen Anne. A very learned old mountebank, Ursus, a misanthrope, but an excellent man, travels the south of England with his cart and his only friend, a wolf called Homo. One evening, he meets a young boy to whom comprachicos (child stealers) mutilated the face so that it seemed to be still laughing, and then they gave up. The child, wandering in the countryside, has just found, near a woman dead in the snow, a little girl whom he has taken with him. She is blind. The old man adopts the two children, the boy, who is named Gwynplaine, and the girl, whom he names Dea...Published in 1942 by Flamamrion, in Paris.Pages: 357Size: 12 x 18 cmVery good conditionThis is, with a view to succession, the dispersion of the library, based on the theme of NAVY from a bibliophile from the south of Ardèche.All the works (approximately 250) from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are in very good condition.You will find them on ebay thanks to the letters VIV which appear to the right of the title in the ad.The main scenes of this strange novel take place in England during the reign of Queen Anne. A very learned old mountebank, Ursus, a misanthrope, but an excellent man, travels the south of England with his cart and his only friend, a wolf called Homo. One evening, he meets a young boy to whom comprachicos (child stealers) mutilated the face so that it seemed to be still laughing, and then they gave up. The child, wandering in the countryside, has just found, near a woman dead in the snow, a little girl whom he has taken with him. She is blind. The old man adopts the two children, the boy, who is named Gwynplaine, and the girl, whom he names Dea... This is, with a view to succession, the dispersion of the library, based on the theme of NAVY from a bibliophile from the south of Ardèche. You
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Year Printed: 1942
Binding: half leather binding, Linked Up
Name of publication: The Man Who Laughs - Volume 2
Language: French
Place of Publication: France - Paris
Author: Victor Hugo
Topic: novel
date of publication: 1942
Number of pages: 357
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