Les Miserables
Book description
This is a brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. The Wretched ( Les Miserables) is the basis for both the longest running musical on the West End and the highly-acclaimed recent film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. Victor…
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I thought I was rereading this, but obviously, I read a highly expurgated version in my youth. Victor Hugo has to be one of the greatest and most idiosyncratic writers ever. He has nudged my beloved Dickens out of his spot in my personal pantheon.
This is the story of Jean Valjean, who was jailed for stealing a loaf of bread and hunted down by a zealot of a police officer for not reporting to the parole board once he had been released from prison. It is the story of good and evil, of revolution and the Republic, and of…
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