Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné by Victor Hugo
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"Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné" by Victor Hugo is a thesis novel published in 1829. The work takes the form of a condemned man's journal during his final twenty-four hours, chronicling approximately five weeks from his trial's verdict to his execution. Through this interior monologue filled with anguished reflections and memories, Hugo creates a political plea against the death penalty, presenting raw testimony of a prisoner's psychological and physical suffering without revealing
the man's identity or crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 |
|---|---|
| Title | Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Day_of_a_Condemned_Man fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Dernier_Jour_d%27un_condamn%C3%A9 |
| Credits | Produced by Laurent Le Guillou. Image files courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Prisoners -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Capital punishment -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 6838 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2015 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 833 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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