Esmeralda: English / French

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Victor Hugo wrote the dramatic libretto for the opera "La Esmeralda" in 1836. Although the premiere of the opera was a failure, the libretto, based on Hugo's novel 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame', is still worth a read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849650919
Publisher:	Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date:	12/08/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	226 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was an internationally renowned novelist, playwright and poet known for his political activism and human rights advocacy. "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger–than–life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th–century French author's books – from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame – have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18