04765nam 2200553 450 991080983680332120200520144314.01-77651-838-1(CKB)3710000000059594(EBL)753717(OCoLC)755629837(MiAaPQ)EBC753717(Au-PeEL)EBL753717(CaPaEBR)ebr10793234(EXLCZ)99371000000005959420131114h18692011 uy 1engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe man who laughs /Victor Hugo[Auckland, New Zealand] :Floating Press,1869.20111 online resource (821 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Title; Contents; Preliminary Chapter - Ursus; Another Preliminary Chapter - The Comprachicos; PART I; BOOK THE FIRST - NIGHT NOT SO BLACK AS MAN; Chapter I - Portland Bill; Chapter II - Left Alone; Chapter III - Alone; Chapter IV - Questions; Chapter V - The Tree of Human Invention; Chapter VI - Struggle Between Death and Life; Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland; BOOK THE SECOND - THE HOOKER AT SEA; Chapter I - Superhuman Laws; Chapter II - Our First Rough Sketches Filled In; Chapter III - Troubled Men on the Troubled SeaChapter IV - A Cloud Different from the Others Enters on the Scene Chapter V - Hardquanonne; Chapter VI - They Think that Help is at Hand; Chapter VII - Superhuman Horrors; Chapter VIII - Nix et Nox; Chapter IX - The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea; Chapter X - The Colossal Savage, the Storm; Chapter XI - The Caskets; Chapter XII - Face to Face with the Rock; Chapter XIII - Face to Face with Night; Chapter XIV - Ortach; Chapter XV - Portentosum Mare; Chapter XVI - The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence; Chapter XVII - The Last Resource; Chapter XVIII - The Highest ResourceBOOK THE THIRD - THE CHILD IN THE SHADOW Chapter I - Chesil; Chapter II - The Effect of Snow; Chapter III - A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher; Chapter IV - Another Form of Desert; Chapter V - Misanthropy Plays its Pranks; Chapter VI - The Awaking; PART II; BOOK THE FIRST - THE EVERLASTING PRESENCE OF THE PAST: MAN REFLECTS MAN; Chapter I - Lord Clancharlie; Chapter II - Lord David Dirry-Moir; Chapter III - The Duchess Josiana; Chapter IV - The Leader of Fashion; Chapter V - Queen Anne; Chapter VI - Barkilphedro; Chapter VII - Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way; Chapter VIII - InferiChapter IX - Hate is as Strong as Love Chapter X - The Flame Which Would Be Seen if Man Were Transparent; Chapter XI - Barkilphedro in Ambuscade; Chapter XII - Scotland, Ireland, and England; BOOK THE SECOND - GWYNPLAINE AND DEA; Chapter I - Wherein We See the Face of Him of Whom We Have Hitherto Seen Only the Acts; Chapter II - Dea; Chapter III - ""Oculos Non Habet, et Videt""; Chapter IV - Well-Matched Lovers; Chapter V - The Blue Sky through the Black Cloud; Chapter VI - Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian; Chapter VII - Blindness Gives Lessons in ClairvoyanceChapter VIII - Not Only Happiness, but Prosperity Chapter IX - Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste Call Poetry; Chapter X - An Outsider''s View of Men and Things; Chapter XI - Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth; Chapter XII - Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher; BOOK THE THIRD - THE BEGINNING OF THE FISSURE; Chapter I - The Tadcaster Inn; Chapter II - Open-Air Eloquence; Chapter III - Where the Passer-By Reappears; Chapter IV - Contraries Fraternize in Hate; Chapter V - The Wapentake; Chapter VI - The Mouse Examined by the CatsChapter VII - Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of Pennies?Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920's. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.L'homme qui ritFacial expressionFictionMan-woman relationshipsFictionFemmes fatalesFictionFacial expressionMan-woman relationshipsFemmes fatales153.69Hugo Victor1802-1885,175104MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809836803321The man who laughs3914083UNINA