Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What was Victor Hugo famous for? Victor Hugo was famous for his literary and poetic works. He is the author of some of the most beloved and notable stories, such asThe Hunchback of Notre DameandLes Miserable. ...
Book Summary:It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens’ gre...
In “Albert of the Capitals,” the last of the three strongest texts, Duras relates an episode in the first days after the liberation, when the Resistance exercised summary judgment on some collaborators. She and another Resistance member hold a waiter, a man known as Albert of “The Capitals...
But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to ...
but they are not particularly well-known today. Verne also published several essays in a journal calledMusée des familles. Verne befriended fellow French writersAlexandre Dumasand Victor Hugo in the early years of his literary career. Verne married a widow named Honorine de Viane in 1857 and con...
Mondrian conformal predictive distributionsby Henrik Boström, Ulf Johansson and Tuwe Löfström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2021) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Evaluation of updating strategies for conformal predictive systems in the presence of extreme eventsby Hugo Werner, Lars Carlsson, Er...
Opening:One summer morning deep in the nest, a brand-new honeybee squirms, pushes, chews through the wax cap of her solitary cell and into…a teeming, trembling flurry. Hummmmm! Book Summary: And so begins the story of Apis mellifera. ...
7. A tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 8. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (Abridged) 9. Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 10. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 11. The Pearl – John Steinbeck 12. P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves/ Blandings Castle etc.) 13. The Ramayana...
Maeterlinck - Malebranche - Michel de Montaigne - Montaigne - Montesquieu - Nicholas Machiavelli - Oliver Goldsmith - Pascal - Pierre Abélard - Rabelais - Rene Descartes - Richard Simon - Richard Steel - Sade - Samuel Richardson - Stendhal - Swedenborg - Thomas Hobbes - Victor Hugo - Voltaire ...
For many years, he was phenomenally successful and was often compared to Victor Hugo, another writer who was popular at the time. The only event that proved problematic for Dumas' career during this time was the July Revolution of 1830. Politically, Dumas sided with the Marquis de Lafayette...