Les Misérables
$36.52
- Hardcover
472 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2016
Summary
Les Misérables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken streets of nineteenth-century Paris.
Escaped convict Jean Valjean turns his back on his criminal past to build his fortunes as an honest man. He takes in abandoned orphan Cosette and raises her as his own daughter. But Jean Valjean is unable to free himself from his previous life and is pursued to the end by ruthless policeman Javert. As Cosette grows up, young i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909621497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909621498 |
| Author: | Victor Hugo, Paul Bailey |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Edition: | Main Market Ed. |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 102mm x 157mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Les Mis
Les Misérables is probably the best book ever written … it really is an incredible classic. – Dominic West * Metro *
Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite – Adam Thirlwell * The Guardian *
On the morning of April 4, 1862, part 1 of Les Misérables, called “Fantine,” was released simultaneously in Brussels, Paris, Saint Petersburg, London, Leipzig, and several other European cities. No book had ever had an international launch on this scale – Nina Martyris * The Paris Review *
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the most well-regarded French writers of the nineteenth century. He was a poet, novelist and dramatist, and he is best remembered in English as the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
Hugo was born in Besançon, and became a pivotal figure of the Romantic movement in France, involved in both literature and politics. He founded the literary magazine Conservateur Littéraire in 1819, aged just seventeen, and turned his hand to writing political verse and drama after Louis-Philippe’s accession to the throne in 1830. His literary output was curtailed following the death of his daughter in 1843, but he began a new novel as an outlet for his grief. Completed many years later, this novel became Hugo’s most notable work, Les Misérables.
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