Author: Victor Hugo
Title: The Last Days of a Condemned
Description: London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1840. Cloth. An English translation of this story of a condemned prisoner from Victor Hugo. With observations on capital punishment by Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood. Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). In a green cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed, with loss to the backstrip, and some bumping. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages have some closed tears and loss to the first and last (caused when opening the pages), and some handling marks. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

Keywords: victor hugo prisoner condemned hesketh fleetwood prisoner None


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