The last day of the sentenced to death

The Book Club of the Book Club offers to your attention the works of Viktor Hugo, published in the series "Poets in verses and prose": the chosen poems of different years and the two novels "The last day of the sentenced to death" and "Claude Ge".
In his first prose work of the present - the story "The last day of the sentenced to death" (1829) about the painful experiences of a person who is waiting for the execution of the death sentence, Hugo takes on the role of the guilty or innocent, before the role, before All ships and trials, before all the jury, before all the runs of justice. " "The last day ..." anticipated the story "Claude Ge" (1834) It describes the real story of a worker convicted of the death penalty for the murder of a prison warden who mocked him (the writer read about the process in the newspaper, tried to prevent execution, and was busy with the mitigation of the punishment, but all his attempts were unsuccessful)