Les Miserables
$81.39
- Hardcover
1480 pages
- Release Date
28 August 1998
Summary
Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean, culminating in a dramatic chase through the sewers of Paris, at another level Hugo’s masterpiece is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic description of French society in the years after N…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152395 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152395 |
| Author: | Victor Hugo |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1480 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 1998 |
| Weight: | 1.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 135mm x 50mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-85) wrote volumes of criticism, dramas, satirical verse and political journalism but is best remembered for his novels, especially Notre-Dame de Paris (also known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables, which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time.
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