The Man Who Laughs: Classics Illustrated #71

One of author Victor Hugo's most controversial and most celebrated works, The Man Who Laughs is loaded with intrigue and suspense. This love story centers on a man whose face has been disfigured into a laughing mask in childhood, and a loyal blind girl who gives him her heart, amidst the cruelty of the privileged aristocracy whose laughingstock and savior the man becomes, is remarkable in its emotional impact. Hugo wrote The Man Who Laughs over a period of fifteen months while he was living...