The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo —— History of a Crime

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ISBN: 9781332588886 出版年：2016 页码：515 Victor Marie Hugo Forgotten Books

Tms book was written twenty-six years ago, at Brussels, during the first months of exile. It was begun on the fourteenth of December, 1851, the day after the author reached Belgium, and it was completed on the fifth of May, 1852, as if chance would commemorate the anniversary of the death of the first Bonaparte with the condemnation of the second. Chance also, by an accumulation of labor, care, and sorrow, has delayed the publication of this history till the present eventful year of 187 7 Had chance also something to do with the coincidence that brings the affairs of the past and the affairs of today in juxtaposition We trust not.