This is exactly why he makes the list of the most tragic classic books. Sometimes, you simply need a good cry. But Hugo is ...

The Drawings of Victor Hugo highlights the famous French writer’s love of drawing in a show of 70 of his illustrations.

Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...

One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...

Charles Dickens captured daily hardships, while Victor Hugo wrote sweeping epics of struggle and redemption but which author ...

Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental ...

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Victor Hugo is the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens. The inventor of Quasimodo and Jean Valjean is so universal that we absorb his myths even if we have never picked up one of his books.

A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted ...

Astonishing Things, the RA show's title comes from a comment Vincent van Gogh made on seeing Victor Hugo's drawings.

Julian Barnes's essay Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's new book The Paris Express We use cookies to ...