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Book Title
Miserables : Introduction by Peter Washington
Publication Name
Les Miserables
Title
Les Miserables
Subtitle
Introduction by Peter Washington
Author
Victor Hugo
Translator
Charles E. Wilbour
Contributor
Peter Washington (Introduction by)
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0375403175
EAN
9780375403170
ISBN
9780375403170
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Classics, War & Military, Literary, Historical
Release Year
1998
Release Date
31/03/1998
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
2in
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
37.7 Oz
Series
Everyman's Library Classics Series
Original Language
French
Publication Year
1998
Number of Pages
1480 Pages

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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. Les Mis rables 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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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375403175
ISBN-13
9780375403170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
41041

Product Key Features

Book Title
Miserables : Introduction by Peter Washington
Author
Victor Hugo
Original Language
French
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Classics, War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
1480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
37.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq2286.A38 1997
Reviews
"Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les MisÉrables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." -V. S. Pritchett "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judging Les MisÉrables one of the world's great novels, if not the greatest… [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." -From the Introduction by Peter Washington, "Rich and gorgeous. This is the [translation] to read… and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page." -Jeanette Winterson,The Times(London) "[A] magnificent story… marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose." -The Denver Post "A new translation by Julie Rose of Hugo's behemoth classic that is as racy and current and utterly arresting as it should be." -Buffalo News(editor's choice) "Vibrant and readable, idiomatic and well suited to a long narrative, [Julie Rose's new translation ofLes Miserables] is closer to the captivating tone Hugo would have struck for his own contemporaries." -Diane Johnson "A lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels." -Alison Lurie "Some of us may have read Les Miserables back in the day, but… between Gopnik and Rose, you'll get two introductions that will offer you all the pleasures of your college instruction with none of the pain." -The Agony Column(trashotron.com) From the Hardcover edition., "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misérables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." -V. S. Pritchett "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judging Les Misérables one of the world's great novels, if not the greatest… [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." -From the Introduction by Peter Washington, "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misrables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." --V. S. Pritchett   "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judging Les Misrables one of the world's great novels, if not the greatest... [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." --From the Introduction by Peter Washington, "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success ofLes Misérablesas a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." -V. S. Pritchett "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judgingLes Misérablesone of the world's great novels, if not the greatest… [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." -From the Introduction by Peter Washington, "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misérables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." --V. S. Pritchett   "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judging Les Misérables one of the world's great novels, if not the greatest... [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." --From the Introduction by Peter Washington, "Rich and gorgeous. This is the [translation] to read… and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page." -Jeanette Winterson,The Times(London) "[A] magnificent story… marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose." -The Denver Post "A new translation by Julie Rose of Hugo's behemoth classic that is as racy and current and utterly arresting as it should be." -Buffalo News(editor's choice) "Vibrant and readable, idiomatic and well suited to a long narrative, [Julie Rose's new translation ofLes Miserables] is closer to the captivating tone Hugo would have struck for his own contemporaries." -Diane Johnson "A lively, dramatic, and wonderfully readable translation of one of the greatest 19th-century novels." -Alison Lurie "Some of us may have read Les Miserables back in the day, but… between Gopnik and Rose, you'll get two introductions that will offer you all the pleasures of your college instruction with none of the pain." -The Agony Column(trashotron.com), "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misérables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature." --V. S. Pritchett   "It was Tolstoy who vindicated [Hugo's] early ambition by judging Les Misérables one of the world's great novels, if not the greatest... [His] ability to present the extremes of experience 'as they are' is, in the end, Hugo's great gift." --From the Introduction by Peter Washington  
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
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Lccn
98-156450
Series
Everyman's Library Classics Ser.

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  • A very thick book, but clearly reflects the reason Victor Hugo has the popular reputation he earned among the French many years ago and that remains.

    I am highly impressed with the quality of this book. It is like new! The pages do not appear to have been turned. While I have not yet read it, I am looking forward to it. I do know the basic story, but I am eager to read it exactly as Victor Hugo wrote it in this unabridged copy.

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