Victor Hugo is best known most for his epic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. However in his day he was equally famed for his Poetry of which he wrote many volumes. The masterful Hugo loses none of his insightful scope writing on a smaller scale. When such a great talent decides to write his own life story and he certainly had disasters as well as triumphs you can be assured it will be a work of great and compelling power.