9781598956597

Les Miserables: Library Edition

Victor Hugo

ISBN 10: 1598956590 / 1-59895-659-0
ISBN 13: 9781598956597
Publisher: Findaway World Llc
Publication Date: 2006

Editorial Reviews:
Review:

"From the bare abstract, the story does not seem to promise much pleasure to novel-readers, yet it is all alive with the fiery genius of Victor Hugo, and the whole representation is so intense and vivid that it is impossible to escape from the fascination it exerts over the mind. Few who take the book up will leave it until they have read it through. It is morbid...but its morbid elements are so combined with sentiments abstractly Christian that it is calculated to wield a...pernicious influence.... Its tendency is to weaken that abhorrence of crime which is the great shield of most of the virtue which society possesses, and it does this by attempting to prove that society itself is responsible for crimes it cannot prevent, but can only punish....Considered as a passionate romance, appealing to the sympathies of the ordinary readers of novels, it will do infinitely more harm than good."

Edwin Percy Whipple, Atlantic Monthly, July 1862