Bug-Jargal

Bug-Jargal is a novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same name published in the Hugo brothers' magazine Le Conservateur littéraire in 1820. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney during the tumultuous early years of the Haitian Revolution.

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Author: Victor Hugo
First published: 1800
Editions: 26
Subjects: Fiction, Haiti in fiction, History, Capital punishment, Haiti, fiction, Fiction, historical, general

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Book.name: Bug-Jargal
Book.image: Hugo - Bug-Jargal, 1876 0002.jpg
Book.author: Victor Hugo
Book.country: France
Book.language: French, Spanish (minor)
Book.publisher: J. Hetzel
Book.pub_date: 1826
Book.english_pub_date: 1833
Book.media_type: Print
Book.pages: 211

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Instance of: literary work
Author: Victor Hugo
Genre: adventure fiction
Country of origin: France
Main subject: slavery
Narrative location: Saint-Domingue
Image: Bug-Jargal Urbain Canel 1826.png

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form of creative work: novel
Commons category: Bug-Jargal
language of work or name: French
title: Bug-Jargal
copyright status: public domain
inception: 1820-00-00
publication date: 1826-00-00
has characteristic: debut novel

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Hugo later claimed that the story was to have been part of a collaborative work called Contes sous la Tente (Tales under a Tent), and that he had written it in 1818 (at the age of sixteen) in two weeks; the manuscript is however dated April 1819.

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