Hans of Iceland, Vol. 1 of 2

Portrait of Victor Hugo.
Etched by Léon Boisson.—From drawing by Devéria.

IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. BY VICTOR HUGO

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“HANS of Iceland” is the work of a young man,—a very young man.
As we read it, we see clearly that the eighteen-year old boy who wrote “Hans of Iceland” during a fever fit in 1821 had no experience of men or things, no experience of ideas, and that he was striving to divine all this.