Chelovek, kotoryy smeetsya

V etom romane Viktora Gyugo, kazhetsya, est' vse: atmosfera tayny, velikolepnye stranicy, posvyaschennye angliyskoy istorii, korablekrushenie, rebenok, broshennyy pri zagadochnyh obstoyatel'stvah, bandy, pohischayuschie i uroduyuschie mladencev, strannyy dokument, naydennyy v zapechatannoy butylke na morskom beregu, slepaya krasavica, mizantrop-blagodetel', ruchnoy volk i romanticheskiy geroy — nischiy brodyaga, kotoryy okazyvaetsya lordom. Geroy vlyublen i lyubim, hotya u nego «rot, otkryvayuschiysya do ushey», besformennyy nos i lico, «na kotoroe nel'zya bylo vzglyanut' bez smeha».