Ninety-Three
Three lives entangled in revolution, testing honor, loyalty, and the cost of conscience.
About this book
Set in the fevered year 1793, Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three thrusts readers into the heart of the French Revolution, where ideologies collide with raw human desperation on the storm-swept coasts of Brittany. Through fierce confrontations, tender loyalties, and wrenching moral dilemmas—embodied by soldiers, officials, and aristocrats—Hugo stages an epic struggle between duty and compassion, order and humane impulse, forcing stark choices. Lush and unflinching, one of Hugo’s last novels pairs thunderous action with philosophical reflection; its sweep and emotional intensity make it a timeless meditation on the costs of revolution and the fragile loyalties that endure.