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Title: Quatre-vingt-treize by Victor Hugo, Claude Roy ISBN: 2-07-050211-2 Publisher: Gallimard Pub. Date: 04 May, 1993 Format: Hardcover

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Ayn Rand is the Authority for this review
Comment: Refer to Ayn Rand's non-fiction bood entitled "The Romantic Manifesto" There's an excellent introduction to Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three. That's what made me want to read it and why I continue to read it over and over.

Rating: 5
Summary: Hugo was a genius
Comment: ...not that that is an unknown fact. I encountered this book while writing an honors undergraduate history thesis on the revolt in the Vendee--which is the setting for this book. Reading Ninety-Three was amazing, it is both a literary masterpiece and an historical commentary that is shockingly ahead of its time. Hugo balances carefully between his own personal belief in the French Republic, and his distaste for the methods used by the Republicans in 1793. His characters are vivid allegories, and the novel is peppered with small parables. It is a story where the "giants" of Robespierre, Marat and Danton become less important than three small children, where the Republic of Swords must face the Republic of Ideas.

This is a must for anyone studying the French Revolution, especially the counter-Revolution. It is also one of the finest pieces of prose fiction I've read in quite a while. I don't think I could possibly say enough in its praise!

Enjoy it!