Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Last Day of a Condemned Man with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, the thought-provoking tale of a man who is sentenced to death and the emotions he feels over the last 24 hours of his life. The book was written as a plea for capital punishment to be abolished, and Hugo uses it to describe in detail how devastating this type of punishment truly is. The author was very politically active, making frequent speeches in front of the government to beg them to abolish the death penalty, which he was strongly against. He is one of the best-known French authors of all time: his works were incredibly successful, his death was mourned across France, and his portrait was even placed on French bank notes in his legacy. Find out everything you need to know about The Last Day in a Condemned Man in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man written by Victor Hugo and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky as “absolutely the most real and truthful of everything that Hugo wrote,” The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a powerful story from an author who defined nineteenth century French literature. If you knew when and where you would die, how would you spend your final moments? For Hugo’s unnamed narrator, such an existential question is made reality. Sentenced to death for an unspecified crime, he reflects on his life as its last seconds wane in the shadows of a cramped prison cell. Recording his emotional state, observations, and conversations with a priest and fellow prisoner, the condemned man forces us to not only recognize his humanity, but question our own. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man written by Victor Hugo and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 2023 translation into American English from the original French manuscripts of Victor Hugo's classic 1829 The Last Day of a Condemned Man. Hugo's classic early novel is a powerful indictment of the death penalty and a plea to end capital punishment completely. This edition contains an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Hugo's life and a summary of each of Hugo's major works chronologically. This novel follows the thoughts and emotions of a man who is sentenced to death, leading up to his execution. It influenced many novels after it, including Dostoevsky's Notes from a Dead House, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The work is considered a classic of French literature and played a significant role in the abolition of the death penalty in France in the 20th century.
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man written by Victor Hugo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply shocking in its time, this is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only comfort, he spends his hours recounting his life and the time before his imprisonment. But as the hours pass, he knows that he is powerless to change his fate. He must follow the path so many have trod before him--the path that leads to the guillotine.
Download or read book The Man Who Laughs written by Victor Hugo and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1920s. 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.
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man written by Victor Hugo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo, the shining light of French Romanticism, was an indefatigable campaigner against the death penalty. This unique anthology of his controversial writings on crime and punishment reveals the author's generosity of spirit and his pity for the condemned. However, as always in Hugo, a degree of endearing self-glorification is never absent. The Last Day of a Condemned Man, while not seeking to minimalize its protagonist's responsibility for the murder he has committed, reminds the reader of the mental anguish endured by a man condemned to a cell. Claude Gueux is a documentary account of the martyrdom of a prisoner driven to crime by poverty, and to murder by the casual brutality of a head warder. Also included are Hugo's moving diary entries recording his visits to the prisons of La Roquette and the Conciergerie.
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man Under Sentence of Death by Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply shocking in its time, this is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only comfort, he spends his hours recounting his life and the time before his imprisonment. But as the hours pass, he knows that he is powerless to change his fate. He must follow the path so many have trod before him--the path that leads to the guillotine.
Download or read book The Last Day of a Condemned Man written by Victor Hugo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Day of a Condemned Man [Le Dernier jour d'un condamné] Victor Hugo Translated by Eugenia De B. The Last Day of a Condemned Man (French: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné) is a short novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. The novel recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings that the death penalty should be abolished. At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author, there was nothing but the following lines. "There are two ways of accounting for the existence of this work. Either there really has been found a bundle of yellow, ragged, papers, on which were inscribed, exactly as they came, the last thoughts of a wretched being; or else there has been a man, a dreamer, occupied in observing nature for the advantage of art, a philosopher, a poet, who, having been seized with these forcible ideas, could not rest until he had given them the tangible form of a volume. Of these two explanations, the reader will choose that which he prefers." As is seen, at the time when this book was first published, the author did not deem fit to give publicity to the full extent of his thoughts. He preferred waiting to see whether the work would be fully understood. It has been. The author may now, therefore, unmask the political and social ideas, which he wished to render popular under this harmless literary guise. He avows openly, that The Last Day of a Condemned is only a pleading, direct or indirect, as is preferred, for the abolition of the penalty of death. His design herein and what he would wish posterity to see in his work, if its attention should ever be given to so slight a production, is, not to make out the special defense of any particular criminal, such defense being transitory as it is easy; he would plead generally and permanently for all accused persons, present and future; it is the great point of human right, stated and pleaded before society at large, that highest judicial court; it is the sombre and fatal question which breathes obscurely in the depths of each capital offense, under the triple envelopes of pathos in which legal eloquence wraps them; it is the question of life and death, I say, laid bare, denuded and despoiled of the sonorous twistings of the bar, revealed in daylight, and placed where it should be seen; in its true and hideous position, not in the law courts, but on the scaffold, not among the judges, but with the executioner! This is what he has desired to effect. If futurity should award him the glory of having succeeded, which he dares not hope, he desires no other crown.
Download or read book Les Mis rables written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon-five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts-is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passport marks him as a former convict. He sleeps on the street, angry and bitter.Digne's benevolent Bishop Myriel gives him shelter. At night, Valjean runs off with Myriel's silverware. When the police capture Valjean, Myriel pretends that he has given the silverware to Valjean and presses him to take two silver candlesticks as well, as if he had forgotten to take them. The police accept his explanation and leave. Myriel tells Valjean that his life has been spared for God, and that he should use money from the silver candlesticks to make an honest man of himself.
Download or read book Toilers of the Sea written by Victor Hugo and published by Boston : Estes and Lauriat. This book was released on 1866 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on the Guillotine written by Albert Camus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Download or read book The Green Indian Problem written by Jade Leaf Willetts and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years – an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem: everyone thinks he’s a girl. Green sets out to try and solve the mystery of his identity, but other issues keep cropping up – God, Father Christmas, cancer – and one day his best friend goes missing, leaving a rift in the community and even more unanswered questions. Dealing with deep themes of friendship, identity, child abuse and grief, The Green Indian Problem is, at heart, an all-too-real story of a young boy trying to find out why he’s not like the other boys in his class. Longlisted for the Bridport Prize (in the Peggy Chapman-Andrews category) 'A small and perfectly formed novel… Everyone who was born in the wrong body should read this, but more importantly, everyone who wasn’t should read it too.' Laura Pearson, author of Missing Pieces and I Wanted You to Know 'A beautiful, sorrowful tale. This took me right back to my childhood – one of curiosity, dreams and the promise to never forget. A reminder that no matter how little we are, our feelings are big, our worlds so important.' Alex Humphreys, BBC presenter and journalist
Download or read book The Last Days of a Condemned written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bug Jargal written by Victor Hugo and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo’s novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship and rivalry, a provocative account of the ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of the rebel leaders and the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever those ties completely. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a broad selection of appendices, including Hugo’s never-before-translated 1820 short story “Bug-Jargal,” contemporary reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to the young Hugo’s poetics and politics, and selections from his source materials about the Haitian Revolution.
Download or read book Last Chance for Life written by Daniel Pascoe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the differences in clemency practice among the Southeast Asian jurisdictions in an inductive search for patterns that explain why some countries in the region make use of clemency far more often than do others.
Download or read book Claude Gueux written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Day of a Condemned Man Claude Gueux written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profoundly moving milestone by the author of Les Misérables, a condemned man writes of his mental anguish inside the walls of a prison. With six weeks of life left to him before facing the guillotine--for a crime that is never revealed--he looks back on the events of his life.
