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Victor Hugo
Arabella Ward
David Dow
Our Price$7.95
Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 0486469980
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
In this profoundly moving novel by the author of Les Misérables, a condemned man writes of his mental anguish inside the walls of a prison. With six weeks of life left to him before facing the guillotine — for a crime that is never revealed — he looks back on the events of his life.
Reprint of the Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York, 1896 edition.

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