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020			_a9780140444308
082			_a843.7 _bHUG
100			_aHugo, Victor.
245			_aLes Misérables
260			_bPenguin Books, _aLondon, _c1982.
300			_a1231 pages ; 19 cm.
520			_a"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."
650			_a1800-1899
650			_aEpic fiction
650			_aEx-convicts Fiction
650			_aFiction
650			_aFictional Work France 19th Century
650			_aFrance Social conditions 19th century
650			_aFrench fiction 19th century
650			_aHistorical fiction Orphans
650			_aOrphans Fiction
650			_aParis (France)
650			_aFiction Prostitutes Fiction
650			_aRomans Social conditions
700			_a Denny, Norman.
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