A person who laughs

In this novel by Viktor Hugo, it seems, there is everything: the atmosphere of secrets, magnificent pages dedicated to English history, shipwreck, a child abandoned under mysterious circumstances, gangs, stolen and ugly babies, a strange document found in a sealed bottle on the sea, a blind beauty , a misanthrope-bias, a manual wolf and a romantic hero-a beggar tramp that turns out to be a lord. The hero is in love and love, although he has a “mouth opening to his ears”, a shapeless nose and face, “which could not be looked at without laughter.” The writer"s unbridled imagination is to envy the creators of modern adventure bestsellers, and meanwhile, we have before us one of the masterpieces of French literature of the 19th century - “The person who laughs”