Les Miserables

Author(s): Victor Hugo

Classics

Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Mis rables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.


 


Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Mis rables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.


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I sobbed and wailed and thought (books) were the greatest things Les Miserables by Victor Hugo changed my life. The first time I read the book was when I was less than eight years old. I could only understand the part about little Cosette, but that chapter really got me Financial Times Every single character is so well delineated, we all know these people and all human life is here Les Miserables One of the finest French Romantic writers Guardian This new translation...marvelously removes the yellowed varnish from Hugo's prose and gives us the racy, breathless, and passionate intelligence of the original Adam Gopnik There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page... The Times

General Fields

  • : 9780099529965
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 1.079
  • : January 2010
  • : 216mm X 136mm X 49mm
  • : January 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Victor Hugo
  • : Paperback
  • : English