Ruy Blas

Author : Victor Hugo
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ISBN 13 : 9781332376834
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Ruy Blas (Classic Reprint) written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ruy Blas Victor Hugo is one of the greatest personalities of French, if not of all, 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. Having at the outset of his career become the champion of a movement which, in spite of its extravagances, wrought a most salutary influence in rescuing French literature from the arid formalism into which it had drifted, he will be the one central individual towards whom will verge all efforts to study and appreciate that movement both in itself and in its relations to antecedent and subsequent forms of French literary thought. The study of some part of Hugo's work is, therefore, essential in any, even the most cursory, survey of French literature. His dramas adapt themselves more easily to such study than his other works, chiefly because the theatre was chosen as the battle-ground of the innovators in their contest with the conservatives. It seems to be conceded, at least by usage, if not otherwise, that Ruy Bias and Hernani are to be the stand-bys for college class-work, and the former has slightly the lead as a favorite, in that the poet has therein reached a higher plane of dramatical lyrism than in the latter. Several editions of Ruy Bias have appeared both in this country and in Europe, but none of them are wholly satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.