Les Miserables - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099529963 ISBN 13: 9780099529965

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2010

Synopsis

On one level Les Miserables is a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean. On another level, it is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic description of French society after Napoleon. But above all, Hugo’s masterpiece is about the metaphysical struggle between good and evil in the soul of every man. It is a plea for social justice, political enlightenment and personal charity.
From the Hardcover edition.

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From the Inside Flap:

A THRILLING NEW TRANSLATION BY JULIE ROSE Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is one of the greatest adventures stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les Miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately, a tale of redemption and hope.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL

From the Back Cover:

‘A humanist masterpiece’ Guardian

‘Still manages to grip the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism’ Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times

‘A sprawling, rumbustious novel’ Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099529963
• ISBN 13: 9780099529965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1376