Cast up by the Sea
by Sir Samuel W. Baker
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play Cromwell (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of literature. Hugo developed his own version of the historical novel, combining concrete, historical details with vivid, melodramatic, even feverish imagination. Among his best-known works are "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables."Victor Hugo is one of the greatest show more personalities of French literature. Though not without the faults and eccentricities, which frequently characterize great geniuses, he never entered any field of literature without excelling in it. The novel, the lyric, the drama, criticism, all fell from his facile pen without apparent effort. show lessTags
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Astonishingly, this is apparently by the great African explorer Sir Samuel Baker.
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