Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)

Hugo, Victor

ISBN 10: 0140444300 / ISBN 13: 9780140444308

Published by Penguin Classics, 1982

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140444300
• ISBN 13: 9780140444308
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 840 grams

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Synopsis

‘He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601’

Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.

Norman Denny’s introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugo’s political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables.

About the Author

Victor Hugo was born in 1820. He was one of France's greatest poets, dramatists and novelists. During his lifetime he produced twenty volumes of poetry, nine novels and ten plays. He was deeply concerned with the social and political developments ofhis time and his outspokenness eventually forced him to leave France until 1870 when he was elected to the national assembly.
Norman Denny was educated at Radley College.