Victor Hugo Lot of 9 MP3 (READ) CD and 50 similar items

Condition: New. CHECK your CD player manual BEFORE ordering. Your player must be able to play MP3 files on CD or these CDs will not play. Thank you. Audio source: Librivox, Public Domain The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude Frollo, and Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy condemned for a crime she did not commit. (Summary by Mark Nelson) Genre(s): Literary Fiction Les Miserables Vol. 1 Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by smileyman457) Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Romance Language: English Les Miserables Vol. 2 Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) This is book 2 of 5. Les Miserables Vol. 3 Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) This is book 3 of 5. Les Miserables Vol. 4 Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) This is book 4 of 5. Les Miserables Vol. 5 Victor HUGO (1802 - 1885), translated by Isabel Florence HAPGOOD (1851 - 1928) This is book 5 of 5. Hernani Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Translated by Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812 - 1895) First performed in 1830, this was once described as a play on which the "romantic school centered its hopes". The Classicists at the time felt that this play was a threat to everything they deemed important in literature. Set in 16th century Spain, Hernani is a tale of romance and intrigue. Described in 1912 thusly: "The performance was permitted, so tradition says, in the expectation that the play would discredit the romantic school once and for all. The principal actress, Mlle. Mars, was outraged by Hugo?s imagery, and refused point blank to call Firmin [actor] her ?lion, superb and generous.? A goodly claque, drawn from the ateliers and salons, brought the play to an overwhelming triumph, and for fifteen years the dominance of the romantic school was indisputable." ... and "Hernani passes from one cataclysmic experience to another; the whole of life seems to depend on the blowing of a hunting horn.". This play inspired the opera "Ernani" by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in 1844. - Summary by Jake Malizia Cast list: Hernani: Greg Giordano Don Carlos: Jake Malizia Don Ruy Gomez de Silva: Alan Mapstone Doña Sol de Silva: Jenn Broda The King of Bohemia: Algy Pug The Duke of Bavaria: James R. Hedrick The Duke of Gotha: Michael Broomhill The Duke of Lutzelbourg: redrun Don Sancho : Adrian Stephens Don Mathias: John Payton Don Ricardo: Larry Wilson Don Garcie Suarez: James R. Hedrick Don Francisco: Andrew Gaunce Don Juan de Haro: KHand Don Gil Tellez Giron: Sandra Schmit Doña Josefa Duarte: Lynette Caulkins A Mountaineer: ToddHW A Lady: Michele Eaton First Conspirator: Adrian Stephens Second Conspirator: John Payton Third Conspirator: Andrew Gaunce A Conspirator: ToddHW The Page: James R. Hedrick Stage Directions: Sonia Editing: ToddHW Genre(s): Romance Language: English Toilers of the Sea Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851 - 1928) The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to convert seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest caliber. Set just after the Napoleonic Wars, Toilers of the Sea deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations, as well as the undeserved disapproval of his neighbors. This is a recording of the Isabel Hapgood translation, long considered the best of early translations of the work. - Summary by John Greenman Genre Sea : Culture Heritage Fiction, Nautical Marine Fiction, Romance Language: English Ninety-Three Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Translated by Aline Delano (1845 - ) 1793. The new revolutionary government of France is laboring mightily to end injustice and bring in an ideal new age of liberty, equality, and brotherhood, beginning by killing those obnoxious persons who don't appreciate their ideals. In Vendee a force of peasants, strongly supported by imperial England, is laboring mightily to overthrow the revolutionary government and restore Christianity, family, honor and decency, beginning by killing those obnoxious persons who fail to appreciate those noble phenomena. The exiled Marquis de Lantenac returns from England to lead the Vendean revolt, to institute a take-no-prisoners policy, and to win a series of bloody victories. Lantenac is opposed with some success by his great-nephew the Revolutionary officer Captain Gauvain. Gauvain's superiors in Paris admire his courage and tactical skill, but they disapprove of his belief that the principle of brotherhood requires him to show mercy to his enemies. They send their man Cimourdain, whose unyielding principles they trust, to make sure that Gauvain's reactionary mercies and his family loyalty are not causing him to betray the Republic--and to have Gauvain killed if that proves to be the case. They don't realize that Cimourdain, who was once a priest and Gauvain's tutor, loves Gauvain like a son--loves him, perhaps, as much as he once loved God and as he now loves the Revolution. Meanwhile, the Breton peasant Michele Flechard, who has just lost her home and her husband in a war which she experiences an incomprehensible nightmare, is simply trying to keep her young children alive and get them to some place that won't collapse in blood and fire. Under the circumstances, this appears about as difficult as bringing about either version of the Just Kingdom. Note: A listener interested in the story, and not in a long excursus on the architecture and the notable names of the French Revolution, could skip the very long Section 27, The Convention, without becoming confused or losing any of the plot. (Summary by Joanna Michal Hoyt) Genre(s): Historical Fiction