Les Miserables: The Only Complete and Unabridged Paperback Edition

Les Miserables: The Only Complete and Unabridged Paperback Edition
ISBN-10
0451525264
ISBN-13
9780451525260
Series
Les Miserables
Category
American fiction
Pages
1492
Language
English
Published
1987
Publisher
Signet Classics
Author
Victor Hugo

Description

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is "Les Miserables "(1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre. "Les Miserables "is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama--highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications--of the redemption of one human being.

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