Showing Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo

“You may read any number of more ‘realistic’ accounts of the French Revolution, but Hugo's is the one you will remember. He is not a reporter of the momentary, but an artist who projects the essential and fundamental. He is not a statistician of gutter trivia, but a Romanticist who presents life ‘as it might be and ought to be.’ He is the worshipper and the superlative portrayer of man's greatness.” —Ayn Rand