Victor Hugo

The Man and the Cannon

Experience the danger of a shipboard accident in this historical fiction by French poet Victor Hugo.

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Victor-Marie Hugo 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose. THE MAN AND THE CANNON: One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose. This is the most dangerous accident that can possibly take place on shipboard. Nothing more terrible can happen to a sloop of war in open sea and under full sail.

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Release date

14.01.2023

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Bookstream Audiobooks

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Genres

Historical Fiction

Moods

anxious, hopeful

Keywords

shipboard, accident, dangerous, French poet, Romantic movement