All Formats & Editions

Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal(1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo's novel available in a... Read Full Overview

1791. Saint-Domingue erupts in the most radical revolution the world has ever seen.

Leopold d'Auverney is a young French officer on his uncle's plantation, engaged to his beautiful cousin Marie, living the privileged life of a colonial planter. Pierrot is a slave... Read Full Overview

En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il ?crirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures d?crivant les p?rip?ties de L?opold d'Auvernay, jeune officier de l'arm?e fran?aise, qui part pour Saint-Domingue, colonie fran?aise... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il ?crirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures d?crivant les p?rip?ties de L?opold d'Auvernay, jeune officier de l'arm?e fran?aise, qui part pour Saint-Domingue, colonie fran?aise... Read Full Overview

Bug-Jargal / by Victor Hugo; illustrated by twenty two drawings by Beauc and Riou; engravings of Pannemaker
Publication: 1876
The first novel of Victor Hugo, written at the age of sixteen. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title... Read Full Overview

?Bjug-Zhargal'? - pervyj roman izvestnogo francuzskogo pisatelja V.Gjugo. Sobytija romana razvivajutsja na fone vosstanija negrov 1791 goda vo francuzskoj kolonii San-Domingo. Vozhd' vosstavshih, Bjug-Zhargal', dobr, mudr i spravedliv.

Tout au long de Bug-Jargal c'est le capitaine L opold d'Auverney qui raconte l'histoire qu'il a lui-m me v cue. L'histoire se passe dans la colonie fran aise de Saint-Domingue o l'oncle de L opold poss de une plantation. L opold est amoureux de la fille de son oncle, Marie,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

R impression inchang e de l' dition originale de 1826. La maison d' dition Antigonos est sp cialis e dans la publication de r impressions de livres historiques. Nous veillons ce que ces ouvrages soient mis la disposition du public dans de bonnes conditions afin de pr server... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il crirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures d crivant les p rip ties de L opold d'Auvernay, jeune officier de l'arm e fran aise, qui part pour Saint-Domingue, colonie fran aise... Read Full Overview

VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885) est la figure centrale du romantisme fran ais, un des grands ma tres de la po sie laquelle il a apport libert de sujet, de diction et de versification. Avec la pr face de Hernani il crit le manifeste du nouveau th tre romantique. Mais c est avec... Read Full Overview