Victor Hugo

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Excerpt from Victor Hugo: His Life and Work All lovers of literature will share the deep regret of Davidson's many personal friends that this is a posthumous work. French literary history was always his hobby. Soon after he left Oxford - he was a scholar of Keble and graduated in 1883 - he began to make an abridged translation of the Memoirs of Dumas, devoting his evenings to the task at a time when he held the headmastership of one of our small north-country grammar schools. He published the translation, and it went out of print. I think it was my friend Mr. Morris Colles who then persuaded him to undertake a Life of Dumas, in view of the approaching centenary. At all events, he did undertake it, and achieved a popular as well as a literary success, and he further made himself known by a series of articles on French literary subjects, contributed to Macmillan's Magazine. Of one of these, dealing with Prosper Merimee's Lettres a une Inconnue, I have a specially vivid recollection as a brilliant and incisive piece of work. He would have liked, I think, to follow up his Life of Dumas with a Life of Merimee, in whose personality he took a peculiar interest, attested by many passing allusions in the present volume. He doubted, however - and publishers also doubted - whether the subject would prove attractive to English readers, and he put the project aside and determined to write of Victor Hugo instead. The pressure of other work interposed some delay, and he did not actually begin the biography until he was in the grip of his last, long illness. 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.