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About the product A man who knows perfectly well that he has nothing more to hope for is waiting for his last day on death row. But for now he is still living. Thinks. Feels. He remembers … Victor Hugo, an active opponent of the death penalty, went, for the sake of higher goals, to a literary hoax — in 1829 he published a short story «The Last Day of a Condemned to Death» anonymously, under the guise of a genuine diary of a condemned to capital punishment. A sensational success followed, and after it — as soon as the author’s name was revealed — the equally unprecedented persecution of Hugo in the press … life. The collection also includes the play «Ruy Blaz», which belongs to the «romantic» period of Hugo’s work.
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