Les Miserables - Couverture rigide

Hugo, Victor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1435144775 ISBN 13 : 9781435144774

Editeur : BookAnnex, 2012

Synopsis

Les Miserables is the story of Jean Valjeans transformation from criminal to hero, and his dedication to doing good in a world where harsh laws often thwart the most benevolent impulses. Imprisoned for nineteen years after stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sisters starving family, Valjean is on the path to becoming a repeat offender when a charitable bishops act of pity compels him to become an honest man. Over the next two decades, Valjean becomes a successful businessman and a generous benefactor to his orphan ward, Cosette. But the implacable Inspector Javert, who knows of Valjeans criminal past and who enforces the law mercilessly, hounds him from town to town, seeking to apply a standard of justice that does not acknowledge either redemption or rehabilitation. A vivid historical romance whose events climax spectacularly during the Paris Uprising of 1832, Les Miserables was praised by Upton Sinclair as "one of the half-dozen greatest novels in the world." This unabridged version of Victor Hugos classic work is as stirring a tale of adventure today as it was when first published in 1862.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Victor Hugo was the third and last son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet. He was born in 1802 in Besançon, France and lived in France for the majority of his life. However, he was forced into exile during the reign of Napoleon III -- he lived briefly in Brussels during 1851; in Jersey from 1852 to 1855; and in Guernsey from 1855 to 1870 and again in 1872-1873. There was a general amnesty in 1859; after that, his exile was by choice.

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BookAnnex
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1435144775
• ISBN 13: 9781435144774
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 928
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible