Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo

Bug-Jargal

Victor Hugo

344 pages first pub 1818 (editions)

fiction classics historical dark fast-paced

Description

Bug-Jargal is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author.

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