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The Victor Hugo Library

The Victor Hugo Library

By: Victor Hugo
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 Enter a library where every page breathes and every silence speaks. The Victor Hugo Library is a podcast devoted to full-length readings of Hugo’s great works - novels vast as cathedrals, stories lit by the small but stubborn flame of human dignity. Here, the exile walks beside the king, the prisoner beside the saint, and the forgotten find a voice again. Each episode opens a door into history, justice, love, and rebellion, inviting you to listen not in haste but in devotion. T

Take your place among the shelves; let the candle burn; and allow the living voice of literature to echo once more through the long corridors of time.Public domain
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  • The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XVI - The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence

    The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XVI - The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence
    Feb 19 2026
    In which a fierce tempest abruptly ceases, leaving the sea unnervingly still and enshrouded in a heavy, snow-laden fog that envelops a battered vessel in an almost otherworldly calm. Yet beneath this deceptive peace, a quiet dread arises as the crew discovers that the ship’s hold is filling with water, foretelling an imminent peril despite the storm’s end.
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    6 mins
  • The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XVII - The Last Resource

    The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XVII - The Last Resource
    Feb 19 2026
    In which a vessel grievously wounded by an unseen leak drifts helplessly upon a becalmed sea, its crew struggling vainly against the slow certainty of their doom with the desperate shedding of all burden. The silent and inexorable descent into the watery abyss is marked not by tempestuous fury, but by a dreadful and implacable calm that seals their fate.
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    9 mins
  • The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XV - Portentosum Mare

    The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter XV - Portentosum Mare
    Feb 19 2026
    In which a beleaguered vessel, the Matutina, is driven by tempest and treacherous currents toward the perilous shores of Aurigny, a land guarded by nature’s most fearsome maritime sentinels, where the sea’s tumultuous moods alternately promise ruin and a fragile hope. The desperate souls on board endure the sinister play of wind and wave, clinging to life amid the storm’s cruel caprices, caught between the near certainty of disaster and the fleeting mercy of deliverance.
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    14 mins
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