"·酝酿十年，法国有名小说家雨果继《巴黎圣母院》《悲惨世界》之后创作的最后一部长篇小说
·结构完善，情节紧凑，充分显示出作者万年圆熟的艺术技巧，是其写作艺术达到炉火纯青地步的产物
·以深邃的社会历史眼光和磅礴雄伟的气魄，用如椽的巨笔，描绘了一幅资产阶级大革命的历史画卷"

本书作为我社“最经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种，精选由法国著名作家维克多·雨果的经典作品《九三年》。《九三年》是雨果创作的最后一部长篇小说，首次出版于1874年2月。雨果在小说中塑造了旺代叛军首领朗德纳克侯爵及其侄孙、镇压叛乱的共和军司令郭文，以及郭文的家庭教师、公安委员会特派员西穆尔登这三个中心人物，围绕他们展开了错综复杂的情节，描绘了资产阶级和封建势力在1793年进行殊死搏斗的历史场面。对资产阶级和封建阶级展开的生死搏斗的正确描写是这本小说的基本价值所在。雨果以深邃的社会历史眼光和磅礴雄伟的气魄，用如椽的巨笔，描绘了一幅资产阶级大革命的真实生动的历史画卷。小说以旺代叛乱与平定叛乱的斗争为背景，以三个孩子的命运为线索，描写了革命与反革命、共和与保王两党之间那场血与火的惨烈严酷的内战，再现了新旧两种制度那不以人的意志为转移的殊死较量，揭露了保王势力的凶残没落，歌颂了以国民公会为代表的新生革命政权，同时也表现了作者一贯的人道主义思想。

PART I AT SEA
BOOK I THE FOREST OF LA SAUDRAIE / 3
BOOK II THE CORVETTE "CLAYMORE" / 19
I ENGLAND AND FRANCE UNITED / 21
II NIGHT WITH THE SHIP AND THE PASSENGER / 25
III PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN UNITED / 28
IV TORMENTUM BELLI / 36
V VIS ET VIR / 39
VI THE TWO ENDS OF THE SCALE / 45
VII HE WHO SETS SAIL INVESTS IN A LOTTERY / 49
VIII 9 : 380 / 53
IX SOME ONE ESCAPES / 59
X DOES HE ESCAPE? / 61
BOOK III HALMALO / 65
I SPEECH IS WORD / 67
II A PEASANT’S MEMORY IS WORTH AS MUCH AS THE CAPTAIN’S SCIENCE / 73
BOOK IV TELLMARCH / 85
I ON THE TOP OF THE DUNE / 87
II AURES HABET, ET NON AUDIET / 91
III THE USEFULNESS OF BIG LETTERS / 94
IV THE CAIMAND / 97
V WHEN HE AWOKE IT WAS DAYLIGHT / 104
VI THE VICISSITUDES OF CIVIL WAR / 108
VII NO MERCY! NO QUARTER! / 114
PART II AT PARIS
BOOK I CIMOURDAIN / 123
I THE STREETS OF PARIS AT THAT TIME / 125
II CIMOURDAIN / 133
III A CORNER NOT DIPPED INTO THE STYX / 141
BOOK II THE POT-HOUSE OF THE RUE DU PAON / 145
I MINOS, ?ACUS, AND RHADAMANTHUS / 147
II MAGNA TESTANTUR VOCE PER UMBRAS / 150
III A QUIVERING OF THE INMOST FIBRES / 167
BOOK III THE CONVENTION / 179
I THE CONVENTION / 181
II MARAT IN THE GREEN-ROOM / 210
PART III IN THE VENDéE
BOOK I THE VENDéE / 219
I THE FORESTS / 221
II MEN / 224
III CONNIVANCE OF MEN AND FORESTS / 227
IV THEIR LIFE UNDER GROUND / 231
V THEIR LIFE IN WARFARE / 233
VI THE SOUL OF THE EARTH PASSES INTO MAN / 239
VII THE VENDéE HAS RUINED BRITTANY / 243
BOOK II THE THREE CHILDREN / 247
I PLUS QUAM CIVILIA BELLA / 249
II DOL / 257
III SMALL ARMIES AND GREAT BATTLES / 265
IV A SECOND TIME / 274
V A DROP OF COLD WATER / 277
VI A HEALED BREAST, BUT A BLEEDING HEART / 281
VII THE TWO POLES OF TRUTH / 288
VIII DOLOROSA / 296
IX A PROVINCIAL BASTILE / 299
X THE HOSTAGES / 310
XI TERRIBLE AS THE ANTIQUE / 317
XII THE RESCUE PLANNED / 322
XIII WHAT THE MARQUIS IS DOING / 325
XIV WHAT THE IM?NUS IS DOING / 328
BOOK III / 331
I THE MASSACRE OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW / 333
BOOK IV THE MOTHER / 351
I DEATH PASSES / 353
II DEATH SPEAKS / 356
III MUTTERINGS AMONG THE PEASANTS / 361
IV A MISTAKE / 366
V VOX IN DESERTO / 369
VI THE SITUATION / 372
VII PRELIMINARIES / 376
VIII THE SPEECH AND THE ROAR / 381
IX TITANS AGAINST GIANTS / 386
X RADOUB / 391
XI THE DESPERATE / 400
XII THE DELIVERER / 404
XIII THE EXECUTIONER / 408
XIV THE IM?NUS ALSO ESCAPES / 411
XV NEVER PUT A WATCH AND KEY IN THE SAME POCKET / 414
BOOK V IN D?MONE DEUS / 419
I FOUND, BUT LOST / 421
II FROM THE DOOR OF STONE TO THAT OF IRON / 429
III WHERE THE SLEEPING CHILDREN WAKE / 432
BOOK VI AFTER VICTORY, STRUGGLE BEGINS / 439
I LANTENAC TAKEN / 441
II GAUVAIN MEDITATING / 444
III THE COMMANDER’S HOOD / 458
BOOK VII FEUDALITY AND REVOLUTION / 461
I THE ANCESTOR / 463
II THE COURT-MARTIAL / 472
III THE VOTES / 476
IV AFTER CIMOURDAIN THE JUDGE,CIMOURDAIN THE MASTER / 482
V THE DUNGEON / 484
VI STILL THE SUN RISES / 494