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Les Miserables (Modern Library)

by Victor Hugo

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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES 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.

From the Paperback edition.

Review:

“[A] magnificent story… marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose.”

The Denver Post

Review:

“A lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels.”

Alison Lurie

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About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the proclamation of the Third Republic.

Julie Rose’s acclaimed translations include Alexandre Dumas’s The Knight of Maison-Rouge and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as works by Paul Virilio, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Thomas, and many others. She is a recipient of the PEN medallion for translation and the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize.

Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, and editor of the Library of America anthology Americans in Paris. He writes on various subjects for The New Yorker and has recently written introductions to works by Maupassant, Balzac, Proust, and Alain-Fournier.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679600121
Translator:
Wilbour, Charles E.
Translator:
Wilbur, Charles E.
Translator:
Wilbour, Charles E.
Author:
Hugo, Victor
Author:
Wilbur, Charles E.
Publisher:
Modern Library
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Subject:
France
Subject:
Paris (france)
Subject:
Paris
Subject:
Orphans
Subject:
Epic literature
Subject:
Ex-convicts
Subject:
France Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
Subject:
Epic fiction
Edition Number:
Modern Library ed.
Edition Description:
Modern Library Hardcover
Series:
Modern Library (Hardcover)
Series Volume:
0000
Publication Date:
September 1992
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
1280
Dimensions:
8.34x5.67x2.32 in. 2.83 lbs.
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