Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty
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Word Count
21,500 words, Guess
Page Count
86 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100997228733
- ISBN-139780997228731
- Library of Congress Control Number2018038452
- OCLC Control Number1048659471
- Better World Books9780997228731
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL34636748M
Classifications
- LCCPQ2283
- LCCPQ2283 .P64 2019
Description
"Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his death. Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, drawn from this larger poem, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. Hugo details Satan's fall, and through a despairing soliloquy, reveals him intent on revenge, yet desiring God's forgiveness. The angel Liberty, meanwhile, is presented by Hugo as the embodiment of good, working to convince her father to return to Heaven. This new translation by Richard Skinner presents Hugo's verse in his preferred style, and is accompanied by illustrations by the Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. No adventurous reader will want to miss this beautiful mingling of the epic and familial, religious and political"--
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