All 5 Uses of
Victor Hugo
in
The Graveyard Book
- One of the new members of the band—Bod thought it might have been the one he had been introduced to as "the famous writer Victor Hugo"—produced a sack which turned out to be filled with firewood, several pieces still with the hinges or brass handles attached, along with a metal cigarette lighter, and soon made a fire, around which all the ghoul-folk sat and rested.†
p. 84.1
- "I don't remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul," said the famous writer Victor Hugo.†
p. 86.2 *
- The 33rd President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder.†
p. 88.8
- Bod, in the sack, was uncomfortable, being painfully slammed against the famous writer Victor Hugo's back and occasionally banged on the ground.†
p. 89.3
- He was pleased to see there were no other ghouls behind him: the famous writer Victor Hugo was bringing up the rear, and no one was behind him to alert the ghouls to the hole that was growing in the sack.†
p. 91.0
Definition:
French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)