The book “Works” by Victor Hugo includes the following works: “The Ninety-third Year”, “Notre Dame Cathedral”, “Toilers of the Sea”, “The Man Who Laughs”. The works in the book are selected in such a way as to show all the depth and the versatility of the great French writer's writing talent. The novel “Notre Dame de Paris” plays a key role in the work of V. Hugo, but no less interesting and original are the chronicles of the great French revolution reflected in the novel “The Ninety-Third Year”, original, with elements of the grotesque on the life of England in the 17th–18th centuries, the plot of the book “The Man Who Laughs.” Victor Hugo appears completely different to us in the novel “Toilers of the Sea,” where the author talks about the hard work of ordinary fishermen and glorifies the heroic struggle of man against the forces of nature.