A rare 1826 French play by master fantasist Charles Nodier revisits the legend of Frankenstein, recasting the legendary scientist as a sorcerer and his Monster as a mute killer from Hell. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was adapted and rewritten by Victor Hugo himself into a stage play that throws new light on the classic tragedy. These two never-before-translated masterpieces are supplemented by an all-new story by translator Frank J. Morlock (Lord Ruthven), in which the Frankenstein Monster travels back in time to save Quasimodo, but does not count on the intervention of - Dracula! Three tales...

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) wrote L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs) in 1869. One of the greatest French novelists, poets, playwrights and socio-political figures of his time, he is probably best known for having written Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (1831) and Les Miserables (1862), but The Man Who Laughs is a romantic masterpiece that deserves an equal measure of acclaim. The incredible love story of the man whose face has been disfigured into a laughing mask in childhood, the loyal blind girl who gives him her heart, and the cruelty of the privileged aristocracy...

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) wrote "L'Homme Qui Rit" ("The Man Who Laughs") in 1869. One of the greatest French novelists, poets, playwrights and socio-political figures of his time, he is probably best known for having written "Notre-Dame de Paris" ("The Hunchback of Notre Dame") (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862), but "The Man Who Laughs" is a romantic masterpiece that deserves an equal measure of acclaim. The incredible love story of the man whose face has been disfigured into a laughing mask in childhood, the loyal blind girl who gives him her heart, and the cruelty of the privileged...

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February, 1802 - 22 May, 1885) is recognised as the influential Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet. His best-known works are the novels "Les Miserables" and "Notre-Dame de Paris" ("

A historical novel built upon the questions "Can a good action be a bad action? Does not he who spares the wolf kill the sheep?" centers on revolutionary France; just as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force.

"Bug-Jargal" (1826; first published as a short story in 1819) is an early novel by French writer Hugo that describes the friendship between the enslaved African Prince Bug-Jargal and Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave revolt in Santo Domingo in 1791.

A historical novel built upon the questions Can a good action be a bad action? Does not he who spares the wolf kill the sheep? centers on revolutionary France; just as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force.

Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf: the former a travelling mountebank, the latter his faithful companion. Gwynplaine was abducted as an infant, and cruelly mutilated so that his face shows the permanent smile of a clown. Abandoned by his abductors some years later, Gwynplaine rescues a blind baby girl from the frozen corpse of her mother at the foot of a gibbet. Time passes, and the young girl -- christened Dea -- comes to love Gwynplaine. Being blind, she is unaware of his disfigurement, but from passing her fingers over his face, assumes that he is always happy. Ursus and Homo meet up with...

Why am I here? Why do I have to live my life like this? What's the purpose? Where is God and why is he not here when I need him? These questions are easy to answer if you start to look inside first. Look at you! Try to understand yourself! Don't try to find God in the wrong places, just let him be expressed through yourself. Books like Arayan Dunes or Pretty Mommy are just examples of how Love can make miracles with us! The author's other books, like Loving, Living and Giving, Magical Kingdom, Ski Utah! Fade to Vain, Deja-vu, or The Square of the Punish Souls, are more examples. Some...