While living in exile with his family on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, Victor Hugo wrote some of his greatest poetry and prose, including "Les Miserables" and two epic poems: "Dieu" and "La Fin de Satan." "Dieu" pictures the imaginary search for God by a nameless protagonist, who must face the possibility of failure in this quest. "La Fin de Satan," an indictment of prison, war, and capital punishment, depicts an attempt at reconciliation between good and evil. This book brings together abbreviated editions of these two book-length poems unfinished and unpublished at the...
While living in exile with his family on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, Victor Hugo wrote some of his greatest poetry and prose, inclu...
Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment.
Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following hi...
