Ninety-Three
Revolution's moral crucible: loyalty, vengeance, and compassion collide amid France's bloodied upheaval.
About this book
In Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three, the French Revolution crackles to life in a remote corner of Brittany as the year 1793 thrusts ordinary people and fierce idealists into an unforgiving struggle for the soul of a nation. Against a landscape of ruined villages and snow-lashed moors, Hugo stages a collision between a relentless revolutionary commissar, a young soldier torn by conscience, and a proud royalist chieftain, forcing each to confront questions of duty, loyalty, and mercy. Rich with thunderous set-pieces and moral urgency, this compact epic pulses with heroic grandeur and tragic human detail, inviting readers to witness how ideology and compassion collide in wartime.