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Ninety-Three
  • Published: 29 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241744055
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
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Ninety-Three

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29 Sept 2026
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A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France’s greatest novelist

In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters – a nobleman turned revolutionary, a devoted mother, and a zealous commander – find their fates intertwined in a struggle that tests their convictions and loyalties. Hugo's last great novel was also his most political and prophetic – and is the equal of Les Misérables in drama, emotion, adventure and sacrifice.
  • Published: 29 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241744055
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870, after the proclamation of the Third Republic.
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Praise for Ninety-Three

Ninety-Three is not just a novel, it’s a history of the bloodiest episode of the French Revolution and a philosophical-cum-anthropological meditation on social progress. It’s also terrific [. . .] Action-packed, tautly paced and exciting [. . .] Bellos’ rendering overall is remarkable, as forceful yet as elegant as the original. Above all Ninety-Three is a reminder that riveting page-turners were around long before airport bookshops

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