$44.78
- Hardcover
1232 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2013
Summary
In time for the 150th anniversary of “Les Miserables” and a star-studded film adaptation, a major new translation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece.
Victor Hugo’s timeless story of injustice, heroism, and love in nineteenth-century Paris comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning new edition translated by Norman Denny and with cover art by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Wildly popular since its first publication in 1862, “Les Miserables” comes to theaters this December in a new film adaptation with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846140495 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846140498 |
| Author: | Victor Hugo, Norman Denny |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1232 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 1.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 137mm x 56mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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“Hugo’s genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Mis
“Hugo’s genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misérables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature.” —V. S. Pritchett
“It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo’s] early ambition by judging Les Misérables one of the world’s great novels, if not the greatest… [His] ability to present the extremes of experience ‘as they are’ is, in the end, Hugo’s great gift.” —From the Introduction by Peter Washington
About The Author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-85) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile of French nineteenth-century writers. He wrote Romantic costume dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of which are Les Miserables (1862) and the youthful Notre-Dame de Paris (1831). A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death- his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Pantheon.
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