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| CATEGORIES ABOUT NINETY-THREE | |
| 1874 novels | |
| novels by victor hugo | |
| french revolution | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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Published in 1873 , the novel concerns the suppression of the counter-revolutionary revolt in 1793 during the French Revolution . It is divided into three parts, but not chronologically; each part tells a different story, offering a different view of historical general events. The action mainly takes place in Paris and in the Vendée region of western France, and to a lesser extent at sea off the Channel Islands , where he latterly lived. Hugo has been criticized for his portrayal of the Bretons , whom he describes as "savages" and as speaking "a dead language". Ayn Rand belived the book to be the last stand of the Romantic movement against the rising tide of Socialism and Naturalism . She wrote that her '' The Romantic Manifesto '' was an attempt to continue the themes of ''Ninety-Three''. The importance of the individual over Ideology in the novel are argued by Rand to be against socialism. A former priest who serves as the novel's villain is believed to have been a hero of Josef Stalin in his youth when Stalin was studying for the priesthood. EXTERNAL LINKS
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