Trigger Warning
On this day in 1802, Victor Hugo was born. Literary Heist challenges you to write a short story, for submission, to celebrate his birthday.
Works
- Cromwell preface only (1819)
- Odes et poésies diverses (1822)
- Odes (1823)
- Han d’Islande (1823), (Hans of Iceland)
- Nouvelles Odes (1824)
- Bug-Jargal (1826)
- Odes et Ballades (1826), (Odes and Ballads)
- Cromwell (1827)
- Les Orientales (1829), (Orientalia)
- Le Dernier jour d’un condamné (1829), (The Last Day of a Condemned Man)
- Hernani (1830)
- Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
- Marion de Lorme (1831)
- Les Feuilles d’automne (1831), (Autumn Leaves)
- Le roi s’amuse (1832)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1833)
- Marie Tudor (1833)
- Littérature et philosophie mêlées (1834), (A Blend of Literature and Philosophy)
- Claude Gueux (1834)
- Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
- Les Chants du crépuscule (1835), (Songs of the Half Light)
- La Esmeralda (only libretto of an opera written by Victor Hugo himself) (1836)
- Les Voix intérieures (1837)
- Ruy Blas (1838)
- Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840)
- Le Rhin (1842)
- Les Burgraves (1843)
- Napoléon le Petit (1852), (Napoleon the Little)
- Les Châtiments (1853)
- Les Contemplations (1856), (The Contemplations)
- Les TRYNE (1856)
- La Légende des siècles (1859), (The Legend of the Ages)
- Les Misérables (1862)
- William Shakespeare (1864)
- Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865), (Songs of Street and Wood)
- Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866), (Toilers of the Sea)
- La voix de Guernsey (1867)
- L’Homme qui rit (1869), (The Man Who Laughs)
- L’Année terrible (1872)
- Quatrevingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874)
- Mes Fils (1874)
- Actes et paroles – Avant l’exil (1875)
- Actes et paroles – Pendant l’exil (1875), (Deeds and Words)
- Actes et paroles – Depuis l’exil (1876)
- La Légende des Siècles 2e série (1877)
- L’Art d’être grand-père (1877), (The Art of Being a Grandfather)
- Histoire d’un crime 1re partie (1877), (History of a Crime)
- Histoire d’un crime 2e partie (1878)
- Le Pape (1878)
- La Pitié suprême (1879)
- Religions et religion (1880), (Religions and Religion)
- L’Âne (1880)
- Les Quatres vents de l’esprit (1881), (The Four Winds of the Spirit)
- Torquemada (1882)
- La Légende des siècles Tome III (1883)
- L’Archipel de la Manche (1883)
Quotes
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Find out more about the life of Victor Hugo.