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HUGOLIAD: Or the Grotesque and Tragic Life of Victor Hugo
by Ionesco, Eugene
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0394560922
- ISBN 13
- 9780394560922
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Grove Press,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Originally written when Ionesco was just 26 and published in a Rumanian literary journal of the 1930s, this "anti-biography" "drips with sarcasm" as he paints Hugo as "a very unromantic charlatan, an intellectual lightweight who rose to success thanks to ruthless tactics." Includes a postscript, notes, and a chronology of Ionesco and Romania. 126 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86696
- Title
- HUGOLIAD: Or the Grotesque and Tragic Life of Victor Hugo
- Author
- Ionesco, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394560922
- ISBN 13
- 9780394560922
- Publisher
- Grove Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1987)
- Keywords
- satire, romania, literary criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in translation;
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