Hans of Iceland, Vol. 1 of 2

by Victor Hugo

The Centenary Edition
LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND
COPIES · NUMBER 555

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.

	Page
[Portrait of Victor Hugo]	[ Frontispiece]
[Schumacker blessing the Young Couple]	[22]
[“He blew a loud blast on a horn”]	[40]
[Hans of Iceland finding the Body of his Son, Gill Stadt]	[68]
[Schumacker and his Daughter in the Prison Garden]	[97]
[Ordener bidding Ethel farewell]	[113]

INTRODUCTION.

“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.