The Last Day of the Condemned. Ninety-Third Year

Every morning can be the last for the condemned. The feelings, thoughts, memories of the convicted, the image of imprisonment - in Victor Hugo's story "The Last Day of the Condemned."

The book also includes Hugo's last novel "Ninety-Third Year," which depicts the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. The drama of political events is closely intertwined with the tragedy of individuals. The novel features both real historical figures - Robespierre, Marat, Danton - and vividly portrayed fictional characters, in whom cruelty and mercy, fanatical devotion to political ideals and ordinary human weaknesses, ruthlessness and magnanimity coexist.