Hugo

WHAT BOOK would biographer Hugo Vickers take to a desert island?

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 …are you reading now?     For a long time I was a Proustian who had never read Proust, although I first read about him when I was 16 — pronouncing him ‘Prowst’ as opposed to ‘Proost’ — in connection with Gladys Deacon, the subject of my latest biography, of whom he was an admirer. I went … Read more

Guernsey mansion where Victor Hugo penned Les Miserable opens after a stunning £3.8million revamp 

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Beautiful Guernsey mansion where Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables re-opens after a stunning £3.8million revamp Author and artist Victor Hugo lived at Hauteville House in Guernsey for 15 years during his exile from France It is now a museum but has been closed for the Past 18 months to undergo an extensive £3.8m restoration  Furniture … Read more