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Title: The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, Geoff Woollen, Libby Purves, Geoff Woolen ISBN: 1-84391-007-1 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A statement on death penalty
Comment: Victor Hugo 'The last days of a condemned man'; more than a distressing tale, is a social comment at the atrocity of the death penalty. He brings a moralistic debate of the authority of government to take life of its citizen. Through the first narrative of the main character whose name and crime is unknown, he describes the torturous moments the captive undergoes up until his time of death. Through these moments he transforms the death penalty from a means of punishment to a state sponsored torture. In the novel he places a sublime message that it is mans tasks to save lives; and its gods to take life. The death penalty becomes a challenge by man to god's authority.
Rating: 3
Summary: A libel against the death penalty
Comment: The story is totally written in the first person, of a man condemned to the scafold, never the reader being told about who was the man and which crime did he commit. As the days passes, the end approaches and we begin to feel ourselves in that man's skin, suffering with him, groping for some way out of his whole misery. I suppose this is a book which must have caused a lot of controversy and anguish at the time of its first publication, but I am afraid that the impact is not the same today, with a lot of books and films showing the same theme, only changing the dreaded guillotine for the terrible electric chair. The book is a libel against the death penalty, something Victor Hugo did not manage to achieve in his lifetime.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Last Day of a Condemned Man: A Classic
Comment: After reading Les Miserables I bought The Last Day of a Condemned Man, I was not expecting an masterpiece like Les Miserables and, because of that, I had such a great surprise, it's a short book but with an energetic message, it shows the horrors of the condemned, the psycological efects in his person when hes own daughter do not recognize him, everiday expecting only death, and with feeling, truth and talent, Victor Hugo show us why the penalty of death is horrendous to anyone.
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Title: Conversations With Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo, John Chambers, Martin Ebon ISBN: 1892138018 Publisher: New Paradigm Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert, Andrew Brown, Germaine Greer ISBN: 1843910004 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Joseph L. Blamire, Shoshana Joy Milgram ISBN: 1889439169 Publisher: Paper Tiger Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Life of a Good-For-Nothing by Joseph Von Eichendorff, F. G. Nichols, J. G. Nichols ISBN: 1843910047 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo, Ayn Rand ISBN: 1889439312 Publisher: Paper Tiger Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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