Les contemplations: Aujourd'hui, 1843-1856 by Victor Hugo
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"Les contemplations: Aujourd'hui, 1843-1856" by Victor Hugo is a collection of poems published in 1856. This autobiographical work spans 158 poems across six books, divided into two parts: "Autrefois" (Before) and "Aujourd'hui" (Today). The collection explores themes of love, joy, death, and grief, centered around the drowning death of Hugo's daughter Léopoldine in 1843. Through verse, Hugo chronicles his journey through mourning, moving from youthful romance and early happiness toward darker contemplations
of loss, mystical faith, and ultimately hope beyond suffering. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 |
|---|---|
| Title | Les contemplations: Aujourd'hui, 1843-1856 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations |
| Credits |
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica). |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French poetry -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29844 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-29844-3 |
| Release Date | Aug 29, 2009 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1162 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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