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Les Miserables: Library Edition
(Paperback, 1987)
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Author: Victor Hugo
Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labo...
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Synopsis
Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, then 19 more for trying to escape. Turned into a hardened and ruthless criminal by his experiences, he reforms, becomes mayor of a French town, but is tracked down by the pitiless detective Javert for another obscure crime, and incarcerated. Escaping again from the brutal French prison, he befriends a prostitute named Fantine and her daughter, Cosette. This 1862 novel is remarkable for its sympathetic portrayal of common people: prisoners, the poor, women of the streets--all the down-and-out victims of the gross inequities of class in 19th-century Europe., Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.
Industry Reviews
"Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognisable myth. The huge success of 'Les Miserables' as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to its poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature....Hugo himself called this novel 'a religious work'; and it has indeed the necessary air of having been written by God in one of his more accessible and saleable moods."
V. S. Pritchett
"I have quite finished 'Les Miserables'. I know very well that Victor Hugh analyses in a different way than do Balzac and Zola, but he probes to the bottom of things just as well."
letters - Vincent Van Gogh (04/18/1983)
"From the bare abstract, the story does not seem to promise much pleasure to novel-readers, yet it is all alive with the fiery genius of Victor Hugo, and the whole representation is so intense and vivid that it is impossible to escape from the fascination it exerts over the mind. Few who take the book up will leave it until they have read it through. It is morbid...but its morbid elements are so combined with sentiments abstractly Christian that it is calculated to wield a...pernicious influence.... Its tendency is to weaken that abhorrence of crime which is the great shield of most of the virtue which society possesses, and it does this by attempting to prove that society itself is responsible for crimes it cannot prevent, but can only punish....Considered as a passionate romance, appealing to the sympathies of the ordinary readers of novels, it will do infinitely more harm than good."
Atlantic Monthly - Edwin Percy Whipple (07/18/1962)
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1982 - $0.75 Save 94%
Paperback, 1987 - $1.18 Save 85%
Paperback, 1998 - $24.02
Hardcover, 1990 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 1983 - $48.00
Hardcover, 1998 - $8.51 Save 68%
Audio, 1987 - $2.50 Save 85%
Paperback, 1989 - $0.75 Save 87%
Paperback, 1980 - $0.75 Save 87%
Hardcover, 1992 - $3.00 Save 88%
Audio, 1997 - $4.19 Save 77%
Audio, 1995 - $14.65 Save 51%
Paperback, 1987 - $2.40 Save 69%
Audio, 1998 - $3.89 Save 83%
Paperback, 1996 - $0.75 Save 94%
Paperback, 1995 - $0.75 Save 81%
Paperback, 1997 - $0.75 Save 84%
Paperback, 1997 - $0.75 Save 84%
Audio, 1999 - $1.66 Save 79%
Paperback, 1997 - $0.75 Save 84%
Audio, 1992 - $1.00 Save 95%
Audio, 1996 - $19.51 Save 32%
Audio, 1996 - $28.41
Hardcover, 1989 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
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Other, 1988 - $4.49 Save 9%
Paperback, 2001 - $5.10 Save 74%
Audio, 1998 - $2.89 Save 85%
Audio, 2001 - $10.00 Save 54%
Audio, 2001 - $7.44 Save 62%
Paperback, 1998 - $2.85 Save 83%
Paperback, 1951 - $0.75 Save 94%
Audio, 2001 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2002 - $9.00 Save 59%
Hardcover, 2001 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 2001 - $8.46 Save 47%
Audio, 2002 - $26.67
Audio, 2002 - $12.74 Save 29%
Paperback, 2001 - $25.00
Paperback, 2001 - $83.56
Hardcover, 2001 - $16.60 Save 20%
Hardcover, 2001 - $14.81 Save 45%
Hardcover, 2001 - $62.94
Paperback, 2001 - $56.34
Paperback, 1999 - $0.75 Save 92%
Audio, 1996 - $44.59 Save 48%
Hardcover, 1989 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 1996 - $55.60 Save 44%
Paperback, 1980 - $2.98 Save 39%
Audio, 1996 - $21.92 Save 73%
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