June 30 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the 155th anniversary of the final chapter of novel Les Miserables being released by paying homage to its author, Victor Hugo, with a new Doodle. Google's ...

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

Based on a Victor Hugo novel, it paved the way for early horror classics such as “Dracula” (1931) and “Frankenstein” (1931).

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 307 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March; $27. “AS ...

WHEN we read a beautiful poem it may very well happen that we find ourselves wholly fascinated by its charm, or possibly moved to tears by our interest in the fictitious story told us, so that we seem ...

Based on the celebrated 1862 novel by French author Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is considered to be one of the great novels ...

Actress Lesley Nicol narrates a heartwarming story about Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables. Actress Lesley Nicol narrates the true story of Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, and his wife ...

Place des Vosges in Paris. The location of Victor Hugo's apartment for 16 years. image: Beckstet via Wikimedia Commons During a recent trip to Paris, I visited the former apartment of Victor Hugo, ...

LOS ANGELES — Helena Bonham Carter apparently shares more with Victor Hugo than just a role in the film based on his novel. A study by genealogy website Ancestry.com reveals Victor Hugo was a ...