A Day Will Come |
August 21, 1849 (from a speech I delivered to the Third International Peace Congress)A day will come when your arms will fall even from your hands! A day will come when war will seem as absurd and im...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:48:00 GMT |
The Worst Treason |
(Translation by: Henry Carrington)The deepest infamy man can attain,Is to strangle Rome, or France enchain;Whate'er the place, the land, the city be,'T is to rob man of soul and liberty;'T is with dra...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:22:00 GMT |
caught in the quicksand |
Today, Feb 26, 2007 I am 205 years old. As a gift to my fans I share with you this passage from Les Miserables, V.iii.5*******It sometimes happens that a man, traveler or fisherman, walking on the be...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:52:00 GMT |
Memoirs - Seige of Paris |
December 31, 1870 --Yesterday I ate some rat...After next week there will be no more washing done in Paris, because there is no more coal.Lieutenant Farcy, commander of the gunboat, dined with me.It i...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:14:00 GMT |
Minds and the Masses |
This is actually an excerpt from a longer work of mine entitled, Shakespeare.
THE PEOPLE
For the last eighty years memorable things have been done. A wonderful heap of demolished materials covers the ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:25:00 GMT |
A Retrospect |
December 31, 1875I have had for friends and allies, I have seen successively pass before me, and according to the changes and chances of destiny, I have received in my house, sometimes in intimacy, ch...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:53:00 GMT |
The Eighteenth of June, 1815 |
[Excerpted from Les Miserables]Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,-- and put ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the epoch when the action nar...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:18:00 GMT |
X-Men, and Me |
You may be familiar with this movie in the theaters right now. It is based on a comic book. Several years ago (1993) the below image appeared in an issue of that comic bookYou might see the ..24601 ...
Posted by on Wed, 31 May 2006 19:58:00 GMT |
1 year after I died -- 120 years ago today - May 1, 1886 |
I didn't live to see it, but 120 years ago workers in America went on strike -- all they wanted was an 8 hour day. To you, this might seem normal, but employers at that time were free to demand 10, 1...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 15:20:00 GMT |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letter on my Behalf |
_To the Emperor Napoleon_[April 1857]Sire,--I am only a woman, and have no claim on your Majesty's attention except that of the weakest on the strongest. Probably my very name as the wife of an Englis...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:34:00 GMT |
