Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty: Selected Verses

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Misérables-but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his death.

Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, drawn from this larger poem, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. Hugo details Satan's fall, and through a desp...