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Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation by Victor Hugo (1987, Paperback, Reissue) 
Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation by Victor Hugo (1987, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation by Victor Hugo (1987, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: New Amer Library
Publication Date: 1987-03-01
Series: Signet Classics
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0451525264
ISBN-13: 9780451525260
Product ID: EPID39805
Description: 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.
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Synopsis
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.

Details
Publication Date:1987-03-01
Series:Signet Classics
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:7.3 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:2.2 in
Weight:21.6 oz

Publisher's Note
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him.

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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      Best Classic Ever Written
    Review created: 12/28/06
    5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

    This book should actually have a rating of 100. This is the best classic ever written. This is my favorite book. I know this is a very thick book, but trust me you won't regret it. This is the unabridged version. The begining of the book will move slowly because of all the history. It did for me. When the history is done you will zip through this book. I would say that this is a man versus man/man versus himself book. You will love Jean Val Jean and Cossette. You will sympathize with them, and you will cry. I did. I have read this book many times. I hope you will too.


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