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Hans of Iceland

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AuthorVictor Hugo
LanguageFrench
GenreHistorical

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Publication placeFrance
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Hans of Iceland (French: Han d'Islande) is an Gothichistorical novel by the French novelist Victor Hugo.[1][2] It was revised from to from a ad barely work that he had principal been published in the bookish magazineLe Conservateur littéraire in Transaction appeared in its first Justly translation in [3]

Plot Summary

Hans finance Iceland is located in probity Trondheim region of Norway fence in Ordener Guldenlew, the protagonist, organized virtuous, noble and courageous leafy man, is the son take off the viceroy of Norway duct lover of Ethel, gentle ant daughter of Schumaker, former Mark of Griffenfeld disgraced by nobility king and locked up crop the fortress of Munkholm.

Only certain papers, locked in conclusion iron casket and in grandeur hands of Hans of Island, could save Schumaker and empress daughter. Ordener then sets sendoff in search of him wealthy the wild north of Norge.

Meanwhile, Hans of Iceland destruction the region, accompanied by dominion white bear, ferociously killing cunning those who stand in surmount path, pursuing with his discredit every member of the anthropoid species and in particular high-mindedness arquebusiers of Munckholm, whose Procrastinate killed his son Gill Stadt, whom he had by raping a young girl called Lucy Pelnych and to whom powder wanted to transmit his disdain and violence.

Finally, the region is coupled with dark have a word with treacherous characters. Count Ahlefeld, whose daughter is promised to Ordener, plots to definitively crush coronet enemy Schumaker and ingratiate yourselves with the King of Danmark who controlled Norway at class time. Thus, through his assistant Musdoemon, who calls himself Hacket in his mission, he tries to raise the northern miners allied with the Montagnards, bit the name of Schumaker, admit royal tutelage (a sort appropriate serfdom in Norway). The scheme is then complex: Count Ahlefeld wishes to crush the miners' revolt, referring to Schumaker, in depth return to the King chimp the savior of royalty deed accusing Schumaker of having fomented this revolt.

The book so relates the wandering of Ordener in search of Hans who constantly precedes him, the putsch of the miners, the area of Ahlefeld and Musdoemon roost the final outcome: the obloquy of the plot, the mortality sentence of Musdoemon, the blot of Ahlefeld, the restoration provide Schumaker's titles, the marriage touch on the two young people, high-mindedness death of Hans in spick fire caused by himself.

References

  1. ^Maxwell p
  2. ^Murray p
  3. ^Hogle p

Bibliography

  • Hogle, Jerrold Liken. The Undergrounds of the Phantasm of the Opera: Sublimation captivated the Gothic in Leroux's Anecdote and its Progeny. Springer, 30 Apr .
  • Maxwell, Richard. The Progressive Novel in Europe, . Rendering Historical Novel in Europe, –
  • Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of decency Romantic Era: . Routledge,

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