Author:Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo
(1802–1885)

Victor Hugo

Works

Novels

• Han d'Islande (1823); Hans of Iceland (tr. 1891) (transcription project)
• Bug-Jargal (1826) IA
• The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) Fr: Le Dernier jour d'un condamné IA
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) Fr: Notre-Dame de Paris [Internet Archive identifier: hunchbacknotred00shobgoog] (transcription project)
• Les Misérables (1862) [Internet Archive identifier: lesmisrables17hugogoog]
• Toilers of the Sea (1866) Fr: Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Commons file)
• The Man Who Laughs (1869) Fr: L'Homme qui rit (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

also translated as By Order of the KingInternet Archive identifier: byorderofking0000hugo

• Ninety-three (1874) Fr: Quatrevingt-treize

Short stories

• Claude Gueux (1834) IA
• "Jenny" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (5) translated (1891).

Drama

Plays

• Cromwell (1827)

  Preface to Cromwell

• Amy Robsart (1828)
• Hernani (1830)
• Marion de Lorme (1831) (transcription project)
• Le Roi s'amuse (1832)
• Lucrèce Borgia (1833); Lucretia Borgia (transcription project)
• Mary Tudor (1833)
• Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
• La Esmeralda (1836), opera libretto, with Louise Bertin
• Ruy Blas (1838)
• The Burgraves (1843)
• Torquemada (1882)
• Les Jumeaux (1889); The Twin Brothers, published posthumously

Collections

• Guernsey Edition (post 1862), in 4 vols.

  Vol. I: Hernani—The Twin Brothers—Angelo—Amy Robsart (Commons file)

  Vol. II: Mary Tudor—Ruy Blas—Torquemada—Esmeralda (Commons file)

  Vol. III: Cromwell—The Burgraves (Commons file)

  Vol. IV: The Fool's Revenge—Marion de Lorme—Lucretia Borgia (transcription project)

• Dramatic Works of Victor Hugo (1894), in 5 vols, transl. by Frederick L. Slous and Mrs. Newton Crosland.

  Vol. V: Hernani—The King's Diversion—Ruy Blas IA

Poetry

Collections

• Nouvelles Odes (1824)
• Odes et Ballades (1826)
• Les Orientales (1829)
• Les Feuilles d'automne (Autumn Leaves) (1831)
• Les Chants du crépuscule (1835)
• Les Voix intérieures (1837)
• Les Rayons et les ombres (1840)
• Les Châtiments (1853)
• Les Contemplations (1856)
• La Légende des siècles (1859, 1877, 1883)
• Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865)
• L'Année terrible (1872)
• L'Art d'être grand-père (1877)
• Le Pape (1878)
• L'Âne (1880)
• Les Quatres vents de l'esprit (1881)

Poems

• "Avant que mes chansons aimées"
• "Espoir en Dieu"
• "Extase"
• "La fiancée du timbalier"
• "La Grand-mere"
• "Ô Charles, je te sens près de moi"
• "La prière pour tous"
• "La tombe dit à la rose"
• "L'Enfance"
• "Après le Coup d'État," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 74), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Lines," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 75−76), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Morning Serenade," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 77), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air"
• "The Grandmother," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 79−80), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Soleil Couchant," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 81), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Cow," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 82), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Rose and the Tomb," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 94), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Chanson"
• "The Awakening (Les Châtiments," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 86−87), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "To Those Who Sleep," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 88−89), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Political Prisoner," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 90), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Universal Republic," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 92−92), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Dawn," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 93−94), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Ocean," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 95−96), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Napoléon le Petit," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 95*−96*), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Advice and Reply," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 97), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Ocean's Song," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 98), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "Patria," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 99−100), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "A Souvenir of the Night of the Fourth," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 101−103), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "France, à l'Heure où tu te Prosternes," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 104−105), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Clarions of Thought," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 106−107), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Retreat from Moscow," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 108−111), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Forts of Paris," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 112−114), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "To My Grandchildren," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 115), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "On the Barricade," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 116-118), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "To Little Jeanne," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (pp. 119−121), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "The Sower," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 122), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "On the Death of His Daughter," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 123), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)
• "After the Battle," in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (p. 124), London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1876)

Letters

• Letter to the London News regarding John Brown

Speeches

• "In Defense of His Son" (1851) in The World's Famous Orations.
• Address to the Workman's Congress at Marseille (1879)

Essays

• Religion and Religions, 1880 attacking organized religion while maintaining faith

Unsorted

• The Spanish Dancer, with illustrations from the Paramount Picture, Internet Archive identifier: spanishdancerbei00will
• Du génie
• Étude sur Mirabeau (1834)
• Littérature et philosophie mêlées (1834)
• Le Rhin (1842)
• Napoléon le Petit (1852)
• Lettres à Louis Bonaparte (1855)
• William Shakespeare (1864)
• Paris-Guide (1867)
• Mes Fils (1874)
• Actes et paroles — Avant l'exil (1875)
• Pendant l'exil (1875)
• Depuis l'exil (1876)
• History of a Crime (1877) IA
• L'Archipel de la Manche (1883)
• Philosophical Writings: Translators (Proses philosophiques : Les Traducteurs)

Published posthumously

• Théâtre en liberté (1886)
• La fin de Satan (1886)
• Choses vues (1887, 1900)
• Toute la lyre (1888)
• Alpes et Pyrénées (1890)
• Dieu (1891)
• France et Belgique (1892)
• Toute la lyre - nouvelle série (1893)
• Correspondances (1896, 1898)
• Les années funestes (1898)
• Post-scriptum de ma vie (1901)
• Dernière Gerbe (1902)
• Mille francs de récompense (1934)
• Océan. Tas de pierres (1942)
• Pierres (1951)

Works about Hugo

Encyclopedia articles

• "Hugo, Victor Marie," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Hugo, Victor-Marie," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Hugo, Victor Marie," by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hugo, Victor Marie," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Poetry

• "To Victor Hugo" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726) (1877) by Alfred Tennyson

On his works

• "Ruy Blas," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Victor Hugo" in Pall Mall Magazine (1902)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.