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Les miserables. III

Pocket classiques ; 6099

by Hugo Victor

Synopsis

(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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Book Information

Copyright year 1998
ISBN-13 9782266083102
ISBN-10 2266083104
Class Copyright
Publisher Pocket
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 451
Length of Recording 19
Shelf No. JS179