Les Miserables - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

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Synopsis

Close your eyes and let this powerful music transport you to another time and place. Les Miserables has captivated generations, but with this critically acclaimed Broadway soundtrack, a beautiful story becomes an unforgettable experience. Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean and his search for grace and redemption will leave any listener moved by the parallel of God's grace towards us. This dramatic reading of the entire novel along with the dynamic new recordings of five of the most popular songs from the original score will bring this masterpiece of the ages to life once again.

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Book Description

Born of the unrest that pervaded France after the failure of its eighteenth-century revolution, Les Misérables follows the journey of Jean Valjean from depravity and corruption to grace and redemption. In this condensed and updated retelling of an epic novel, Jim Reimann, who revised the classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest, seeks to highlight Victor Hugo’s message of salvation.

About the Author

The son of a high officer in Napoleon's army, Victor Hugo (1802-85) 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. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

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9781628368161: Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today’s Reader

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ISBN 10:  1628368160 ISBN 13:  9781628368161
Publisher: Shiloh Run Press, 2014
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