| Les Miserables: Introduction by Peter Washington [With Ribbon Marker] Contributor(s): Hugo, Victor (Author), Wilbour, Charles E. (Translator), Washington, Peter (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375403175 ISBN-13: 9780375403170 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed. "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98156450 |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 2.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (2.30 lbs) 1480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Mis rables (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. |