Ninety-Three (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three is a grave and impassioned historical novel set during the French Revolution's most violent phase, the Reign of Terror and the Vendée uprising. In this illustrated edition, the visual accompaniment heightens Hugo's dramatic contrasts: republican idealism and royalist loyalty, public justice and private mercy, history as thunderous spectacle and intimate moral trial. Writ...