Les Miserables

By - Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 , Denny, Norman, 1901-1982

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Signet Classic, New York, New York, 1987

ISBN 10 - 0451525264

ISBN 13 - 9780451525260

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Epic fiction

Shelf No - 10

Call Number - 843.7 HUG

Physical Description - xxi, 1463 pages ; 18 cm

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(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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