Name: Les Miserables [With Ribbon Marker] (Everyman's Library) (in English)
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Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9780375403170

portada Les Miserables [With Ribbon Marker] (Everyman's Library) (in English)

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Physical Book

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Introduction by

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Publisher

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

1480

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 5.6 cm

Weight

1.04 kg.

ISBN

0375403175

ISBN13

9780375403170

Synopsis "Les Miserables [With Ribbon Marker] (Everyman's Library) (in English)"

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 Misérables (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 Misérables 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.

Victor Hugo

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(1802 - 1885) Poeta, dramaturgo y novelista francés. Comenzó a escribir poesía y obras de teatro desde joven y llegó a convertirse en el máximo exponente del Romanticismo francés y maestro del movimiento en el mundo. Entre los años 1829-1843 escribió libros de gran éxito. Victor Hugo también destacó como activista político y social, luchando por los derechos humanos y la justicia.

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