Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes & by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes & by Victor Hugo

&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RLes Miserables&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RVictor Hugo&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R

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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&ROne of the most widely read novels of all time, &&LI&&RLes Mis rables &&L/I&&Rwas the crowning literary achievement of &&LB&&RVictor Hugo&&L/B&&R's stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed&&LI&&R Les Mis rables&&L/I&&R, an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. &&LP&&RThis newly abridged edition of &&LI&&RLes Mis rables&&L/I&&R tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean--unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. &&LP&&RA monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, &&LI&&RLes Mis rables&&L/I&&R is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France.&&L/P&&R&&LP&&R&&LB&&RLaurence M. Porter&&L/B&&R has published twelve books, including &&LI&&RVictor Hugo &&L/I&&R(1999), and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon's army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Academie Francaise. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Academie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee have translated two volumes of the letters of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to My Life and Quiet Moments in a War. For their work together, they have received an NEA Translation fellowship and the American Literary Translators Association Award. Lee Fahnestock has translated fiction as well as four volumes of the poetry of Francis Ponge, including The Making of the Pre and The Nature of Things. The French Government honored her with the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres. Norman MacAfee's other books include One Class: Selected Poems; The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now; the opera The Death of the Forest; and translations of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781593080662
ISBN 10	1593080662
Title	Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes &
Author	Victor Hugo
Series	Barnes And Noble Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Union Square & Co.
Year published	2003-11-01
Number of pages	896
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