Miserables, Les: Volume 2 - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140444041 ISBN 13: 9780140444049

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1980

Synopsis

P CENTERBVictor HugoBR Les Mis#201;rables/BBR Translated by Charles E. WilbourBR Abridged, edited and with an introduction by Paul B#233;nichou/CENTER P Published simultaneously in nine languages in 1862, ILes Mis#233;Rables/I is a vast tapestry set against the chaos of post-Napoleonic France. A cast of hundreds is woven into the epic story of the ex-convict Jean Valjean and his valiant struggle to redeem himself. A potent social document of the poverty, ignorance, and brutality of man, ILes Mis#233;Rables/I is also a rousing adventure and a passionate parable of love. Here, Victor Hugo displays his skills as a dramatist and poet, and shows his deeply felt compassion for all mankind. P Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of ILes Mis#233;Rables/I contains the original introduction by Hugo scholar and Harvard professor Paul B#233;nichou, as well as his accomplished abridgment.

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About the Author

The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Mis?rables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamn? (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Acad?mie fran?aise, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panth?on alongside Alexandre Dumas and ?mile Zola.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140444041
• ISBN 13: 9780140444049
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 528