Ninety-Three
by Victor Hugo
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Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many including such diverse critics as Robert Louis Stevenson and André Maurois as his greatest work.1793, Year Two of the Republic, saw the establishment of the National Convention, the execution of Louis XVI, the Terror, and the monarchist revolt in the Vendée, brutally suppressed by the Republic. Hugo's epic follows three protagonists through this tumultuous year: the noble royalist de Lantenac; Gauvain, who embodies a benevolent and romantic vision of the Republic; and Cimourdain, whose principles are altogether more robespierr...
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- NINETY-THREE
- VICTOR HUGO
- Translated by Mrs. Aline Delano
- NINETY-THREE
- AT SEA.
- THE CORVETTE "CLAYMORE."
- I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE UNITED.
- II. NIGHT WITH THE SHIP AND THE PASSENGER.
- III. PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN UNITED.
- IV. TORMENTUM BELLI.
- V. VIS ET VIR.
- VI. THE TWO ENDS OF THE SCALE.
- VII. HE WHO SETS SAIL INVESTS IN A LOTTERY.
- VIII. 9 : 380.
- IX. SOME ONE ESCAPES.
- X. DOES HE ESCAPE?
- HALMALO.
- I. SPEECH IS WORD.
- II. A PEASANT'S MEMORY IS WORTH AS MUCH AS THE CAPTAIN'S SCIENCE.
- TELLMARCH.
- I. ON THE TOP OF THE DUNE.
- II. AURES HABET, ET NON AUDIET.
- III. THE USEFULNESS OF BIG LETTERS.
- IV. THE CAIMAND.
- V. WHEN HE AWOKE IT WAS DAYLIGHT.
- VI. THE VICISSITUDES OF CIVIL WAR.
- VII. NO MERCY![2]NO QUARTER![3]
- AT PARIS.
- CIMOURDAIN.
- I. THE STREETS OF PARIS AT THAT TIME.
- II. CIMOURDAIN.
- III. A CORNER NOT DIPPED INTO THE STYX.
- THE POT-HOUSE OF THE RUE DU PAON
- I. MINOS, ÆACUS, AND RHADAMANTHUS.
- II. MAGNA TESTANTUR VOCE PER UMBRAS.
- III. A QUIVERING OF THE INMOST FIBRES.
- THE CONVENTION.
- I. THE CONVENTION.
- II. MARAT IN THE GREEN-ROOM.
- IN THE VENDÉE.
- THE VENDÉE.
- I. THE FORESTS.
- II. MEN.
- III. CONNIVANCE OF MEN AND FORESTS.
- IV. THEIR LIFE UNDER GROUND.
- V. THEIR LIFE IN WARFARE.
- VI. THE SOUL OF THE EARTH PASSES INTO MAN.
- VII. THE VENDÉE HAS RUINED BRITTANY.
- THE THREE CHILDREN.
- I. PLUS QUAM CIVILIA BELLA.
- II. DOL.
- III. SMALL ARMIES AND GREAT BATTLES.
- IV. A SECOND TIME.
- V. A DROP OF COLD WATER.
- VI. A HEALED BREAST, BUT A BLEEDING HEART.
- VII. THE TWO POLES OF TRUTH.
- VIII. DOLOROSA.
- IX. A PROVINCIAL BASTILE.
- X. THE HOSTAGES.
- XI. TERRIBLE AS THE ANTIQUE.
- XII. THE RESCUE PLANNED.
- XIII. WHAT THE MARQUIS IS DOING.
- XIV. WHAT THE IMÂNUS IS DOING.
- I. THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- THE MOTHER.
- I. DEATH PASSES.
- II. DEATH SPEAKS.
- III. MUTTERINGS AMONG THE PEASANTS.
- IV. A MISTAKE.
- V. VOX IN DESERTO.
- VI. THE SITUATION.
- VII. PRELIMINARIES.
- VIII. THE SPEECH AND THE ROAR.
- IX. TITANS AGAINST GIANTS.
- X. RADOUB.
- XI. THE DESPERATE.
- XII. THE DELIVERER.
- XIII. THE EXECUTIONER.
- XIV. THE IMÂNUS ALSO ESCAPES.
- XV. NEVER PUT A WATCH AND KEY IN THE SAME POCKET.
- IN DÆMONE DEUS.
- I. FOUND, BUT LOST.
- II. FROM THE DOOR OF STONE TO THAT OF IRON.
- III. WHERE THE SLEEPING CHILDREN WAKE.
- AFTER VICTORY, STRUGGLE BEGINS.
- I. LANTENAC TAKEN.
- II. GAUVAIN MEDITATING.
- III THE COMMANDER'S HOOD.
- FEUDALITY AND REVOLUTION.
- I. THE ANCESTOR.
- II. THE COURT-MARTIAL.
- III. THE VOTES.
- IV. AFTER CIMOURDAIN THE JUDGE, CIMOURDAIN THE MASTER.
- V. THE DUNGEON.
- VI. STILL THE SUN RISES
- THE END.
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