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Hans of Iceland

Victor Hugo

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Hans of Iceland

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Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with the destitute heroine, royal court-intrigues and rebellious uprising, all set in dungeons, dark towers and the untamed nature of Norway.
Julie Kersten 09/21/2021
A real page turner in the end

This book turned out to be quite a surprise. I read it in the original French for my book club. At first I found the book rather dry with a lot of tedious and seemingly unnecessary description. Victor Hugo is quite wordy, but I find that to be a trend among many 19th cen
Victor 05/01/2021
3 1/2 stars. Political intrigue, dynastic messiness, worker uprisings, and a bandit in Hugo's first novel, written at 17 (and you can tell).
Bill 06/23/2017
Hugo's first novel shows scant traces of the brilliance to come but it's a ripping tale of adventure and intrigue with a monstrous villain, the author's first monster, though hardly a sympathetic one. Many of the chapters are made up almost entirely of conversations, which makes me wonder if the nov
Tim 08/31/2009
Robert Bly once said of a poem by Wallace Stevens that "it was as bad a poem as it is possible for a genius to write." I thought of that when reading this book. After Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris, it's hard to imagine that this work flowed from the same pen. There are flashes of the human

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