: Victor Hugo
: Man Who Laughs L'Homme Qui Rit
: The Floating Press
: 9781775452782
: 1
: CHF 6.00
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
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.