โ Scribed by Victor Hugo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Part 1 -- Book the First. Night Not So Black As Man -- Chapter 1. Portland Bill -- Chapter 2. Left Alone -- Chapter 3. Alone -- Chapter 4. Questions -- Chapter 5. The Tree of Human Invention -- Chapter 6. Struggle Between Death and Life -- Chapter 7. The North Point of
A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The main suspect is a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most vocal critic. Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator, master of
A scientific sleuth tackles the riddle of a mysterious fire.
Victor Hugo's *The Man Who Laughs* (first published under the French title *L'Homme qui Rit* in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him sin
**Nicholas Van Rijn** Interstellar Merchant Prince one moment, barbarian chattel the next. Marooned half a world and an ocean away from the sole human outpost on a planet whose very water is poisonous to humans; captured by winged barbarians in the midst of a brutal war of extermination, somehow "O