Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel (Paperback)

from booksontrial

This book reminds me of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Iliad and The Last Days of Socrates. There're memorable adventures and battles at sea, a ferocious siege that leads to a battle to the death, and finally, in the face of death, a contemplation of meaning, duty, freedom and destiny...

from john257hopper

This was rather a mixed bag. It started and ended well in terms of plot dynamic, though had a fairly lengthy and overblown descriptive phase in the middle. The final section in particular was a very moving and gripping exploration of the dilemmas of revolution and human nature and whether the end...

from Schmerguls

I read this from a volume which also contained the Hugo work Things Done. I finished the volume on April 20, 1975. Ninety-Three is a novel laid in 1793 and telling of Lantenac's dramatic return to France to lead the revolt in Brittaney. SPOILER The general in charge of Republican forces there is ...

from DanMat

Very Big Hugo fan. Another reviewer said, good begining, good end, boring parts in between. I agree, thought the begining was a touch melodramatic though. The castle that is the stage for the final showdown is so convoluted, I almost had to put it down. Still don't fully understand the lay out. I...

from mimal

bookshelves: winter-20132014, fraudio, published-1874, historical-fiction, france, tbr-busting-2014, revolution, lit-richer, execution, epic-proportions, gr-library, channel-islands, victorian, translation, seven-seas Read from January 05 to 27, 2014 Description: Ninety-three, the last of Victor ...