The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

150 Seiten

2013
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-361-3 (ISBN)

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Presents a first-person chronicle of the final hours of a man sentenced to the gallows. This book offers graphic details of the prisoner's environment and a moving insight into his thoughts, reminiscences and despair at his impending doom.

A first-person diary of a prisoner’s final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo’s poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in recollections from his past and philosophical musings on his inevitable fate.

As relevant today as when it was first published in 1829, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is an eloquent plea for compassion and a masterpiece of realist fiction.

Novelist, playwright, poet, painter, human-rights activist and states-man, Victor Hugo (1802–85) was one of the most influential figures of nineteenth-century France and is still considered its greatest writer.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2013
Übersetzer	Christopher Moncrieff
Verlagsort	Richmond
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 198 mm
Gewicht	143 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	1-84749-361-0 / 1847493610
ISBN-13	978-1-84749-361-3 / 9781847493613
Zustand	Neuware