Victor Hugo - Collected Works, incl. Les Miserables (36 books)

* Victor Hugo - Collected Works, incl. Les Miserables (36 books)

VICTOR HUGO (1802–1885) was one of the central figures of nineteenth-century French literature and a leading voice of Romanticism. Over a career spanning more than sixty years, he was not only a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but also a public intellectual deeply engaged with questions of justice, history, and human suffering. His literary output is inseparable from his political life, including periods of exile following his opposition to Napoleon III.

Hugo is best known for his novels, which combine epic storytelling with social critique. NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS (1831) established his reputation as a major novelist, using medieval Paris to explore themes of fate, love, and social exclusion. His masterpiece, LES MISÉRABLES (1862), is a vast moral and historical panorama of post-revolutionary France, focusing on poverty, redemption, and the law. He followed this with TOILERS OF THE SEA (1866) and NINETY-THREE (1874), each blending political reflection with dramatic narrative.

Poetry remained central to Hugo’s literary identity and is often considered the foundation of his genius. After early collections such as "Les Feuilles d’automne" (1831) and "Les Chants du crépuscule" (1835), his poetry deepened in emotional and philosophical scope. His ambitious poetic cycle "La Légende des siècles" (1859) attempts nothing less than a poetic history of humanity, tracing moral progress across time. Four modern bilingual editions of his SELECTED POETRY are included here, notably those translated by Steven Monte (2002), and A.H. and E.M. Blackmore (2004).

In addition to fiction and poetry, Hugo made lasting contributions to drama and politically engaged prose. His play HERNANI (1830) famously challenged classical theatrical conventions and marked a decisive victory for Romantic drama, followed by major works such as RUY BLAS (1838). Hugo also used short prose fiction as a powerful tool of moral protest, most notably in THE LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED MAN (1829), a stark first-person narrative denouncing the death penalty, by immersing the reader in the psychological torment of an executed prisoner. Through these diverse forms, Hugo forged a body of work that is both artistically monumental and underscored by a profound belief that literature should confront injustice and shape public conscience.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

== FICTION ==

* Hunchback of Notre Dame [ed. Roche] (Barnes & Noble, 2004)
* Hunchback of Notre Dame [tr. Cobb] (Signet, 1965) – PDF
* Hunchback of Notre-Dame [tr. Bair] (Bantam, 1986) – PDF
* Hunchback of Notre-Dame [tr. Liu] (Modern Library, 2002)
* Last Day of a Condemned Man [tr. Moncrieff] (Alma Classics, 2013)
* Last Day of a Condemned Man [tr. Ward] (Dover, 2009)
* Last Day of a Condemned Man [tr. Woollen] (Hesperus, 2002) – PDF^
* Les Misérables [tr. Denny] (Penguin, 1982)
* Les Misérables [tr. Donougher] (Penguin, 2016)
* Les Misérables [tr. Fahnestock & MacAfee] (Signet, 1987) – PDF*
* Les Misérables [tr. Fahnestock & MacAfee] (Signet, 2013)
* Les Misérables [tr. Rose] (Modern Library, 2008)
* Les Misérables [tr. Wilbour] (Modern Library, 1998)
* Les Misérables [tr. Wilbur, abridged] (Barnes & Noble, 2003)
* Les Misérables [tr. Wilbur] (Barnes & Noble, 2002) – PDF
* Ninety-Three [tr. Delano] (Jazzybee Verlag, 2018)
* Notre-Dame de Paris [tr. Krailsheimer] (Oxford, 1993)
* Notre-Dame de Paris [tr. Sturrock] (Penguin, 2004)
* Toilers of the Sea [tr. Thomas] (Smith & Taylor, 2024)
* Toilers of the Sea [tr. Hogarth] (Modern Library, 2002)
* Waterloo [tr. Denny] (Penguin Little Black Book, 2016)
* The Wretched (Les Misérables) [tr. Donougher] (Penguin, 2013)

== POETRY ==

* The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems [tr. Guest] (Anvil Press, 1981) – PDF
* Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty [tr. Skinner] (Swan Isle Press, 2019)
* Selected Poems [tr. Blackmore] (Chicago, 2001) – PDF
* Selected Poems [tr. Haxton] (Penguin, 2002)
* Selected Poetry [tr. Monte] (Routledge, 2002) – ePUB / PDF

== PLAYS ==

* Hernani [tr. Strand] (Broadway Play Publishing, 2013) – PDF
* Three Plays [tr. Crosland & Slous] (Howard Fertig, 1995) – PDF

== NON-FICTION ==

* Last Day of a Condemned Man & Other Prison Writings [tr. Woollen] (Oxford, 1992) – PDF^
* Memoirs of Victor Hugo [tr. Harding] (Mint Editions, 2021)
* Things Seen [tr. Kimber] (Oxford, 1964) – PDF
* William Shakespeare [tr. Baillot] (Jazzybee Verlag, 2018)

== ANTHOLOGIES ==

* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2015)
* The Essential Victor Hugo [tr. Blackmore] (Oxford, 2004) – ePUB / PDF
* Victor Hugo on Things That Matter: A Reader [tr. Barnett] (Yale, 2009) – PDF


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