Les Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A tale of injustice, heroism and love that follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty."Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable mythThe 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
Victor Hugo was born in Besançon, France in 1802. In 1822 he published his first collection of poetry and in the same year, he married his childhood friend, Adèle Foucher. In 1831 he published his most famous youthful novel, Notre-Dame de Paris. A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and was exiled from France as a result of his political activities. In 1862, he wrote his longest and greatest novel, Les Misérables. After his death in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846140495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846140498 |
| Title | Les Les Miserables |
| Author | Victor Hugo |
| Series | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 1232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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