ISBN Victor Hugo book English Paperback 720 pages

One of the best biographies I have read, ever Selina Hastings Mr Robb has written an enthralling book one of the great biographies of our time. He contrives not to be dwarfed by his subject, which is some contrivance. He makes of Hugos life a story as exciting to read as it was extraordinary to have lived. He has a matchless gift for narrative. His style is epigrammatic and compelling. His judgements seem fair not something Hugo was used to in life. Every Place Victor Hugo should now have a Caf-Bar Graham Robb. He deserves, and will probably get, the Lgion dhonneur Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph Robb achieves the goal of all good literary biographies by making us long to regain, or savour for the first time, Hugos company as a writer. Surely no chronicler of his life or analyst of his work has ever looked this prodigy of nature so unflinchingly in the eye Jonathan Keates, Literary Review Graham Robbs exuberant biography of the French writer blows the cobwebs away from a neglected hero and sets him before us in lurid and quite unforgettable shape. Robbs jaunty, self-confident style is gloriously appropriate to his subject . . . Robbs enthusiasm is hugely exhilarating and his biography is a fascinating study in the making of a celebrity Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times, Books of the Year The best life of the writer available in English (and likely to remain so for some time) . . . His fascinating, totally readable Life will introduce Hugo to many readers who know him only as a name Robin Buss, Independent on Sunday