Free On Amazon Today Les Misérables (English language)
and Les Miserables
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes
& Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at
affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new
scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are
some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Misérables was
the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo’s stunning career.
Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced
to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he
completed Les Misérables, an enormous melodrama set against the
background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I.
This newly abridged edition of Les Misérables tells the story of the
peasant Jean Valjean—unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his
nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective
Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming
underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as
cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion
sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic
ideal in France.
A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer,
the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Misérables is a rich,
emotional nove l that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in
nineteenth-century France.
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