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The Last Day of a Condemned Man Victor Hugo
Publisher: Dover Publications

*According to Ingram demand, the next most popular Hugo novel appears to be The Last Day of a Condemned Man, which is said to be a precursor in spirit to Les Miserables. Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading is one, but even more so is Victor Hugo's The Last Day of a Condemned Man, where every interaction is a para-liturgy. This is why the book is so chilling. The picture was rewarded with the Gold Medal of the Paris Salon in 1870. I thought I was picking an easy solution by buying The Last Day of a Condemned Man but although it isn't very long, it is far more thought provoking than I had anticipated. In 1869, Munkácsy painted his much acclaimed work The Last Day of a Condemned Man. But public order will not disappear along with the executioner; never believe that. A novella and a short story in a slim volume. This is considered his first masterpiece. "Le dernier jour d'un condamnee" is a plea for the abolition of the death penalty purportedly written by the condemned man himself. The vault of future society will not collapse for lack of that monstrous keystone.