Ninety-three

Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three plunges into the French Revolution at its most brutal, where civil war, political terror, and private conscience collide. From the haunted forests of Brittany to storm-tossed seas and the battlefields of the Vendée, the novel follows soldiers, peasants, nobles, and revolutionaries caught in a struggle that is as moral as it is military. In the spring and summer of 1793, a battered Paris battalion moves through La Saudraie, where a suspected ambush gives way to a startling discovery: Michelle Fléchard, a starving peasant mother, hidden with her three children. Suspicion softens into mercy as Housarde, Radoub, and the men of the Bonnet-Rouge battalion take her in, turning war into an act of revolutionary brotherhood. The story then widens to the covert voyage of the Claymore, carrying a disguised royalist agent toward France, and to the tense roads of Brittany, where a mysterious traveler heads toward Dol and the clash between the Royalist Marquis de Lantenac and his Republican grand-nephew, Viscount Gauvain. Hugo frames the conflict as tragic, heroic, and deeply personal, with families, factions, and the fate of France bound together in one devastating reckoning. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.