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Les Misérables

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Penguin Books, London, 1982.Description: 1231 pages ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780140444308
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 843.7  HUG
Summary: "Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Miserables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. Norman Denny's introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugo's political and artistic aims in writing Les Miserables."
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad General Fiction 843.7 HUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SIBMH-B-1136
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839.738 LAR The girl who kicked the hornet's nest 839.8238 DAH Lethal investments 839.8238 LUN The history of bees 843.7 HUG Les Misérables 843.8 FIA Madame Bovary 843.8 FLA Madame Bovary 843.8 VER A journey to the centre of the earth

"Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Miserables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. Norman Denny's introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugo's political and artistic aims in writing Les Miserables."

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