The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo

The Laughing Man

Victor Hugo

580 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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A gothic fantasy about a man whose face has been torturously carved into a permanent grin, and his journey from circus freak to aristocrat, and back again. Ayn Rand considered this Hugo's best novel, and Universal Studios did a 1920 movie based on...

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