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The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History

Victor Hugo · 1869

A historical romance novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1869, following a traveling performer named Ursus, his trained wolf, and a mysterious orphaned child as their lives unfold in seventeenth-century England, involving nobility, intrigue, and the court of Queen Anne.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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